📄 Abstract
Digital labour platforms have replaced the negotiated or posted wage with a rate computed by software. This study examines how platform human resource control systems — task allocation, rating and evaluation, dynamic pricing, and deactivation — determine the wage formation mechanism, and contrasts the dynamic pricing regime now in operation with the prospect of algorithmic price discrimination in labour, under which workers performing identical work receive individually computed and systematically different rates. The method is a systematic review of the empirical, legal and institutional literature combined with a policy synthesis across jurisdictions; no new estimation is undertaken. The review identifies three transmission channels through which control systems reach wages: information asymmetry over the rate function, estimation of individual reservation wages from behavioural data, and management of labour supply elasticity through targeted incentives. Together these convert the platform’s informational advantage into wage-setting power of a kind that classical monopsony analysis did not anticipate. The comparative regulatory assessment finds that the European Union’s Platform Work Directive 2024/2831 is presently the only instrument addressing all three channels directly, while India’s framework — the Code on Social Security 2020 and the pioneering Rajasthan and Karnataka statutes — has advanced welfare financing substantially while leaving the wage formation mechanism itself almost entirely unregulated. With India’s platform workforce projected to reach 23.5 million by 2029–30, the study argues that rate transparency, explanation rights over automated pay decisions, and a data-processing boundary are the three interventions of greatest urgency, and sets out an implementation sequence consistent with the existing constitutional division of labour legislative competence.
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📚 How to Cite:
Dr. N Subbukrishna Sastry, Dr. Manjula Mallya M , PLATFORM WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT AND ALGORITHMIC WAGE FORMATION: A GLOBAL REVIEW AND POLICY SYNTHESIS WITH AN INDIAN REGULATORY ASSESSMENT , Volume 13 , Issue 9, September 2026, EPRA International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Studies (EBMS) , Pages: 102 - 110 ,