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Emerging Trends in Productive Employment

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Decent Work and Economic Growth

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Productive Employment: International Labor Organization defines productive employment as an employment opportunity that generates sufficient returns for the employee and his/her dependents to meet their minimum level of consumption and keeps them reasonably above the poverty line (ILO 2012).

Business Aggregators: They create a digital platform using software, operating systems, web browser, or a mobile application for doing an online business that facilitates commercial interactions between potential customers and listed vendors. Aggregator ensures uniform prices and quality by signing a contract with the delivery partners.

Artificial Intelligence: It is a science that simulates human intelligence in machines using advance algorithms and helps machines to behave and predict like humans.

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After machines and computers, the third-largest factor to create disruption in employment market is the Internet. The digital revolution supported by Internet penetration has...

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  1. Department of Business Economics, Faculty of Commerce, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

    Jayant Kumar

  2. School of Business and Law, Navrachana University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

    Hitesh Bhatia

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Kumar, J., Bhatia, H. (2020). Emerging Trends in Productive Employment. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_118-1

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