Shaping Sustainable Employment Relationships in the Age of Digitalisation: Analysing Policy Measures in an Agent-Based Framework
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
Momentum2021: Arbeit | Momentum Kongress
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Deutsch
Original Kurzfassung:
In this paper, we argue that the degree of potential benefits derived from the process of digitalisation depends on the institutional environment implemented in the digital sphere. The digital field offers entirely new perspectives and possibilities that might have the power to alleviate many processes especially with regard to labour and to restructure existing employment relationships.
We argue that political action of unionisation and compromising requires some degree of trust and reciprocity between actors to be established in the digital sphere. This is necessary in order to establish and strengthen a model of social partnership in the digital sphere, that has proven to be a successful tool in negotiating adequate employment relationships and working conditions. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the interconnectedness of individual behavioral traits, social norms and the degree of contractable information in a path-dependent evolutionary process in an agent-based framework. Building on an evolutionary game theoretical model by \citet{Bowles2004} we show how different social norms of trust and reciprocity emerge in the context of complete and incomplete information and vice versa. The model features both firms (employers) and workers (employees) and focuses on their interaction on the labor market. It is used to analyze how (1) social norms change and which behavioral traits emerge when the prevailing type of contract is changed. Furthermore, (2) different policy alternatives including union action and government intervention will be analyzed.