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    Fair pay and Ride-hailing Drivers' Willingness to form and join Worker-Platform Co-operatives in Kenya
    (2024-09-08) Matabi, Jared Mark O.; Gicheru, Esther Njoki; Kiganane, Lucy Maina
    Kenya's increasing dependency on ride-hailing platforms (the 'uberization') has not translated into drivers’ improved quality of life. E-drivers in the country still face several challenges similar to those faced elsewhere in the world. Among these challenges is the unfair pay distribution. It is essential to understand how such challenges can be mitigated or addressed. Previous studies have recommended that e-drivers in the country should form worker-platform co-operatives. The study was undertaken to estimate the extent to which the fairwork principles, including fair pay, would trigger e-drivers’ willingness to form and join worker-platform co-operatives. We applied critical-realism research philosophy and the discrete choice experiment design. Data was primarily collected through a discrete choice questionnaire administered to participants in person and online. The study respondents of 497 out of the 600 questionnaires from the Nairobi Metropolitan Region –Nairobi City, Kiambu, Machakos and Kajiado Counties – were used and analysed using the multinomial logistic regression on Jamovi version 2.5.6.0 statistical software. The study shows that pay rates have significant implications for the behaviour of e-drivers in the ride-hailing industry. We found that e-drivers’ willingness to form and join worker-platform co-operatives would be influenced by their dissatisfaction with the investor-owned firms’ compliance with the fairwork principle of pay. This suggests that e-drivers are more inclined towards co-operative (social representation and collective action) structures when they are dissatisfied with pay rates offered by the existing ride-hailing investor-owned firms. This indicates e-drivers' desire for the co-operative values of solidarity, equality, and equity and the third co-operative principle on members’ economic participation in the ride-hailing industry. These findings underscore the importance of the stakeholders in the Ministries of Transport, Labour, Internal Security, and Co-operative Development in advocating for and enforcing fairwork principles in the ride-hailing industry by promoting worker-platform co-operatives in the country.