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Professor Arun Sundararajan is interviewed on the sharing economy's impact on the labor market

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Excerpt from Deutsche Welle -- "There's a very complex set of factors that changes when you shift away from full-time salaried work towards these more flexible arrangements. In the United States right now, a lot of the social safety net, a lot of the benefits - ranging from steady salary and paid vacations to insurance and different kinds of health benefits - all of that is connected to being employed full-time, and it's much better if you're an employee. And as more and more work becomes flexible, it happens that these new sharing economy providers don't have access to the same benefits as fulltime employees do."

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