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Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China
The consistent innovations and applications of information technology drive the vigorous development of the gig economy, and generate gig workers such as food delivery workers and couriers, and make a great contribution to stabilizing employment and increasing income. Gig workers, mostly made up of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100365 |
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author | Chen, Tinggui Song, Weijin Song, Junying Ren, Yixuan Dong, Yuzhu Yang, Jianjun Zhang, Shuyuan |
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description | The consistent innovations and applications of information technology drive the vigorous development of the gig economy, and generate gig workers such as food delivery workers and couriers, and make a great contribution to stabilizing employment and increasing income. Gig workers, mostly made up of migrants, and suffer from job and status difficulties. Research on the well-being of migrant gig workers can reveal the practical problems and provide suggestions for narrowing the wealth gap to promote social fairness and justice. Taking Hangzhou city in China as an example, this paper explores the well-being of food delivery workers, couriers, and online car-hailing drivers as representatives of migrant gig workers. Firstly, the relevant data are acquired through the questionnaire. Secondly, the characteristics of this group are analyzed through descriptive analysis, namely: most of them are migrant workers aged between 20 and 39 with low occupation satisfaction due to insufficient social security coverage and limited well-being, despite relatively high income. Based on the analysis of differences in demographic variables and structural equation modeling, the factors affecting the well-being of migrant gig workers are studied, which mainly are occupation satisfaction, social interaction, and social security. The results show that occupation satisfaction is positively affected by family characteristics, social interaction, and social security. In addition, family characteristics and social security positively impact social interaction, but the former has no significant effect on well-being. Finally, this paper enriches the research on the well-being of specific migrant gig workers and gives policy suggestions for enhancing the well-being of migrant gig workers in Hangzhou city from the perspective of optimizing the mechanism, pilot construction, and platform provision. |
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spelling | pubmed-95989482022-10-27 Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China Chen, Tinggui Song, Weijin Song, Junying Ren, Yixuan Dong, Yuzhu Yang, Jianjun Zhang, Shuyuan Behav Sci (Basel) Article The consistent innovations and applications of information technology drive the vigorous development of the gig economy, and generate gig workers such as food delivery workers and couriers, and make a great contribution to stabilizing employment and increasing income. Gig workers, mostly made up of migrants, and suffer from job and status difficulties. Research on the well-being of migrant gig workers can reveal the practical problems and provide suggestions for narrowing the wealth gap to promote social fairness and justice. Taking Hangzhou city in China as an example, this paper explores the well-being of food delivery workers, couriers, and online car-hailing drivers as representatives of migrant gig workers. Firstly, the relevant data are acquired through the questionnaire. Secondly, the characteristics of this group are analyzed through descriptive analysis, namely: most of them are migrant workers aged between 20 and 39 with low occupation satisfaction due to insufficient social security coverage and limited well-being, despite relatively high income. Based on the analysis of differences in demographic variables and structural equation modeling, the factors affecting the well-being of migrant gig workers are studied, which mainly are occupation satisfaction, social interaction, and social security. The results show that occupation satisfaction is positively affected by family characteristics, social interaction, and social security. In addition, family characteristics and social security positively impact social interaction, but the former has no significant effect on well-being. Finally, this paper enriches the research on the well-being of specific migrant gig workers and gives policy suggestions for enhancing the well-being of migrant gig workers in Hangzhou city from the perspective of optimizing the mechanism, pilot construction, and platform provision. MDPI 2022-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9598948/ /pubmed/36285934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100365 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chen, Tinggui Song, Weijin Song, Junying Ren, Yixuan Dong, Yuzhu Yang, Jianjun Zhang, Shuyuan Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China |
title | Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China |
title_full | Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China |
title_fullStr | Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China |
title_short | Measuring Well-Being of Migrant Gig Workers: Exampled as Hangzhou City in China |
title_sort | measuring well-being of migrant gig workers: exampled as hangzhou city in china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36285934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12100365 |
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