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Social Law 4.0 / Chapter 6 Extending Social Insurance Schemes to “Non-Employees”: The Dutch Example
Social Law 4.0 / Chapter 6 Extending Social Insurance Schemes to “Non-Employees”: The Dutch Example
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Part I: Starting Points: The Changing World of Work as a Challenge for Social Security
13–72
13–38
Chapter 1 Social Law 4.0: Challenges and Opportunities in Social Protection
Ulrich Becker, Olga Chesalina
Ulrich Becker, Olga Chesalina
13–38
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I. Starting Points
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1. Digitalisation, Industrial Relations and Social Protection
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2. Core Questions
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a) Access to Social Protection
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b) Financing of Social Protection
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3. Aim of the Project and State of Research
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a) Insights from Innovations in Social Protection
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b) Innovations in Research
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II. Structure and Contents
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1. Background
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2. Ensuring Social Security: Employment Status Classification and Innovative Solutions
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3. Financing Social Security: Experiences and New Approaches
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4. Transborder Perspective: The Future Role of the European Union
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III. Conclusions and Perspectives
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39–72
Chapter 2 Platform Work: Critical Assessment of Empirical Findings and its Implications for Social Security
Olga Chesalina
Olga Chesalina
39–72
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I. Introduction
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II. Platform Work: What is Really New?
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III. Empirical Evidence
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1. Situation at a Glance
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2. Shortcomings of Empirical Studies
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3. Cross-Border Labour Flows in Platform Work
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IV. Implications for Social Security in Empirical Studies
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1. Platform Work as a Main Job and as a Side Job, and Motivation of Platform Workers
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2. Characteristics of Dependence
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a) Dependence as a Legal Category
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b) Dependence Explored in Empirical Studies
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3. Access of Platform Workers to Social Protection
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4. Comparison of the Situation concerning Access to Social Protection of Platform Workers and Non-Standard Workers, and that of Self-Employed Persons
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V. Implications for Social Security from Practical Evidence
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VI. Conclusion
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73–228
Part II: Ensuring Social Security: Employment Status Classification and Innovative Solutions
73–228
73–96
Chapter 3 The Sharing Economy in Belgium: Status due to Taxation or Non-Status?
Yves Jorens
Yves Jorens
73–96
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I. Introduction
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II. The Sharing Economy under Belgian Social Law
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1. Indirect Legal Status
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2. Non-Status
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3. Is the Sharing Economy not Labour?
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4. Back to the Drawing Board
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III. Towards New Protection for Platform Workers?
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IV. Conclusion
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97–116
Chapter 4 Is the Classification of Work Relationships Still a Relevant Issue for Social Security? An Italian Point of View in the Era of Platform Work
Edoardo Ales
Edoardo Ales
97–116
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I. Introduction
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II. The Classification of Work Relationships: The Beginning
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III. Subordination and Autonomy: A Political and Legal Issue
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IV. Coordination: A New Star is Born
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V. The Beginning of Ambiguity
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1. The Extension of Subordinated Social Protection to Autonomous Work
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2. “Hetero-Organisation”: A New Challenge for Subordination
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VI. Platform Work and its Varieties
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1. Smart Working (on Platform) as a Modality of Subordinate Work
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2. Platform Work as a Modality of Hetero-Organised Collaboration
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3. Platform Work as a Modality of (“False”) Autonomous Work
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VII. Conclusion
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117–146
Chapter 5 Relationship between Employment Status and Scope of Social Security Protection: The United Kingdom Example
Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
117–146
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I. Introduction
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II. Evaluation of Non-Standard Forms of Employment
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1. Advantages of Non-Standard Forms of Employment
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2. Disadvantages of Non-Standard Forms of Employment
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III. Universal Credit and Other Related Social Security Benefits
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1. Universal Credit, Unemployment and Work
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2. Universal Credit, New Style ESA, and Incapacity for Work
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3. The Legislative Benefit Cap
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IV. Non-Standard Forms of Work and the Social Security System
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V. Judicial Action in the Sphere of Non-Standard Work
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VI. Social Security Reforms for the 21st Century UK Labour Market
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VII. Conclusion
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147–170
Chapter 6 Extending Social Insurance Schemes to “Non-Employees”: The Dutch Example
Gijsbert Vonk
Gijsbert Vonk
147–170
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I. Introduction
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II. The System in the Netherlands and Logical Setup of this Contribution
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III. The Present State of Social Security Law for Non-Standard Workers
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1. Demarcation between Those Who are Considered to be Employees and Those Who are Not
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a) Main Rules
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b) The Role of Case Law
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c) Extending and Limiting the Scope of Application of the Employee Insurance Schemes on the Basis of Legal Fiction
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d) No (Formal) Definition of “Self-Employed Worker”
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e) Practical Assessment of the Nature of the Employment Relationship by the Taxation Authorities
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2. Protection of the Self-Employed against the Risks for which only Employee Insurance Schemes have been Established (i.e. Unemployment, Sickness and Incapacity for Work)
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a) Sickness
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b) Unemployment
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c) Incapacity for Work
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3. Coverage for Extra-Minimal Protection for Old Age and Death through the Occupational Pension System
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a) Second Pillar
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b) Third Pillar
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IV. Policy Objectives, Legislative Change and Proposals for Change
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1. Fighting Bogus Self-Employment and Enforcing Labour Law Protection
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2. Confronting the Great Divide
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3. Borstlap Commission
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V. Conclusion: Lessons (not) to be Learned from the Dutch Experience
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171–202
Chapter 7 Collective Agreements and Social Security Protection for Non-Standard Workers and Particularly for Platform Workers: The Danish Experience
Natalie Videbæk Munkholm
Natalie Videbæk Munkholm
171–202
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I. Introduction
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II. Social Security Measures – The Legislative Framework and Recent Reforms
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1. Sick Leave Benefits
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2. Maternity Leave Benefits
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3. Unemployment Insurance
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4. Cash Benefits
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5. Retirement Pensions
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6. Occupational Injury Insurance
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III. The Role of Social Partners in Improving Social Security for Platform Workers
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IV. Conclusion
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203–228
Chapter 8 Looking for the (Fictitious) Employer – Umbrella Companies: The Swedish Example
Annamaria Westregård
Annamaria Westregård
203–228
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I. Introduction
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II. Legal Prerequisites in Swedish Labour Legislation for the Umbrella Company Business Model
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1. Basics
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2. A Wide Concept of Employment in Labour Law
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3. No Requirement for Duration of Time
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4. Generous Possibilities for Fixed-Term Employment
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5. Umbrella Companies and Temporary Work Agencies
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III. Umbrella Companies and the Concept of Employment according to Social Security Legislation and Unemployment Insurances
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1. The Concept of Employment in Social Security Legislation
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2. The “Intention of the Parties” Criterion
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3. Social Security for Umbrella Company Workers
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4. Unemployment Benefits for Umbrella Company Workers
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IV. The Importance of Collective Agreements – Supplemental Benefits
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1. The Social Parties and New Phenomena in the Labour Market
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2. Supplemental Collective Agreements
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V. Conclusion
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229–306
Part III: Financing of Social Security: Experiences and New Approaches
229–306
229–256
Chapter 9 The Influence of the Platform Economy on the Financing of Social Security: the Spanish Case
Borja Suárez Corujo
Borja Suárez Corujo
229–256
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I. Introduction
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II. The Legal Classification of Platform Workers
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III. The Platform Economy and its Impact on Social Security
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IV. Coping with the Financial Risks Associated with the Platform Economy? Small Steps, So Far
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V. Preserving or Transforming the Financial Structure of Social Security Systems in a Context of Ageing?
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VI. Conclusion
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257–280
Chapter 10 Social Security in the Platform Economy: The French Example – New Actors, New Regulations, Old Problems?
Francis Kessler
Francis Kessler
257–280
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I. Introduction
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II. Financing Social Security: Main Principles
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III. First Legislative Initiatives to Take Account of the Platform Economy
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1. The Premises: The Mettling Report and the France Stratégie Report
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2. Legislative Attempts
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a) First Attempt: Law on Work, Modernising the Social Dialogue of 2016
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b) Second Attempt: Law to Choose One’s Professional Future of 2018
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c) Law on Mobilities of 2019
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IV. New Sources of Financing in a Gig Economy: The Example of Rental of Furnished Accommodation for Short Periods
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1. Definition(s)
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a) Bed and Breakfast
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b) Furnished Tourist Accommodation
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2. Affiliation and Contributions
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a) Bed and Breakfast
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b) Furnished Tourist Accommodation
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V. Anti-Fraud Measures: New Forms of Control
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VI. Conclusion
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281–306
Chapter 11 New Forms of Employment and Innovative Ways for the Collection of Social Security Contributions: The Example of Estonia
Gaabriel Tavits
Gaabriel Tavits
281–306
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I. Introduction
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II. New Forms of Employment
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III. Scope of Regulation of the Social Protection Rights
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1. The Constitutional Framework of Social Protection
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2. Benefits Included in the Social Protection System and Personal Scope
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3. Taxes and Contributions Foreseen for Financing Social Protection
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IV. New “Workers” Outside of Social Protection
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1. General Tendencies of Development of Social Protection
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2. Shortcomings in Health Insurance Cover
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3. Unemployment Benefits – Access for the Privileged
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V. Entrepreneur Account – a New Opportunity
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1. What is an Entrepreneur Account?
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2. Necessary Social Security Protection (Example: Health Insurance)
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3. Entrepreneur Account – Sufficient for Social Protection?
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VI. Conclusion
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307–393
Part IV: Transborder Perspective: The Future Role of the European Union
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307–334
Chapter 12 Building Up and Implementing the European Standards for Platform Workers
Paul Schoukens
Paul Schoukens
307–334
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I. Introduction
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II. Platform Work as a New Non-Standard Work Form
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1. Platform Work
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2. Platform Work Compared to Standard Work
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III. Platform Work as a Challenge for Organising Social Security
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1. What is “Work”?
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2. Who is the Employer?
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3. Irregular Work Patterns
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4. Virtual Mobility of Platform Workers
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IV. The EU Recommendation on Access to Social Protection
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1. The Recommendation as a Concrete Outcome of the European Pillar of Social Rights
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2. Access to Social Protection
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a) Formal Access
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b) Effective Access
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c) Adequate Benefits
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d) Transparent Access
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V. The EU Recommendation: Are the Needs of Platform Work Sufficiently Addressed?
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1. Platform Work: Self-Employment or Wage-Earnership?
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2. Low-Income Groups Covered by the Guarantee of Adequate Benefits?
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3. What is a Professional Activity and What is Not?
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VI. An Alternative to Benefits Harmonisation: Towards an EU Financing Fork?
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VII. Conclusion
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335–362
Chapter 13 Social Law 4.0 and the Future of Social Security Coordination
Grega Strban
Grega Strban
335–362
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I. Introduction
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II. Coordination of Social Security Systems
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1. The Objective
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2. Two Paradoxes
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III. Distinctive Definitions
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IV. Applicable Legislation
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1. Impact of Qualification to Collision Rules
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2. Rules on Marginal Activity
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3. Minimum Coverage for a Legislation to be Applicable?
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4. Only Voluntary Insurance for Non-Standard Workers?
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V. Equality of Treatment
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VI. Aggregation of Periods
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VII. Export of Benefits
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VIII. Conclusions and Proposals de lege ferenda
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363–393
Chapter 14 Taxation of the Platform Economy: Challenges and Lessons for Social Security
Katerina Pantazatou
Katerina Pantazatou
363–393
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I. Introduction
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II. Platform-Related Issues and International Initiatives
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1. Relationship of Platform and Work Status
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2. Labour-Related Tax Incentives for Platforms
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III. Tax Issues and Employment Relationship: National Responses
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IV. What can we Learn from Taxation?
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1. Double Tax Treaties and the OECD MC
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2. Can VAT Provisions be of any Help?
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a) Carrying out Activities “Independently”
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b) Taxable Person
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c) Economic Activity/ Income Definition
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3. Enforcement and Collection
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V. Conclusion
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Social Law 4.0 , page 147 - 170
Chapter 6 Extending Social Insurance Schemes to “Non-Employees”: The Dutch Example
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Gijsbert Vonk
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doi.org/10.5771/9783748912002-147
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-7149-3
ISBN online: 978-3-7489-1200-2
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