Guy Davidov
Biographic Data
| ID | 5578592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Davidov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidov |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDOV G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1716-3271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using AI to Mitigate the Employee Misclassification Problem
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is widespread. This article aims to make two contributions. My first goal is to sharpen the explanation of why misclassifications persist; I argue that three well‐known problems – the indeterminacy of employee status tests, the barriers to self‐enforcement, and the inequality of bargaining power – together combine to give employers de facto power to set the default legal status. Putting th…
The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work
At the core of all societies and economies are human beings deploying their energies and talents in productive activities—that is, at work. The law governing human productive activity is a large part of what determines outcomes in terms of social justice, material wellbeing, and the sustainability of both. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that work is heavily regulated. This book is about the ‘law of work’, a term that includes legislation set…
Flexibility, choice, and labour law
Working through platforms is a recent but fast-growing phenomenon, with obvious implications for workers’ rights. Discussions have so far focused on the status of platform-based workers, but, recently, a growing consensus is emerging by courts around the world that workers for platforms such as Uber are in fact employees. As a result, legal disputes are likely to shift, to a large extent, from status questions to working-time questions. This migh…
Consent in Contracts of Employment
This article considers the problem of questionable consent in contracts of employment. We suggest that in the context of employment, consent should be understood as a continuum that includes some level of coercion and some level of choice. We show that despite labour law's assumption of inequality of bargaining power, consent is still legally valid in various contexts of employment. We propose some solutions: procedural rules increasing the chanc…
A Purposive Approach to Labour Law
The book addresses the ‘crisis’ of labour law by taking a purposive approach. First, it articulates the goals of labour law. The general goals of labour law are examined and justified, at different level of abstraction. This requires an in-depth normative discussion, including a consideration of critiques. Labour law can be understood as a solution to a ‘labour problem’, such as the vulnerabilities of democratic deficits and dependency. It can al…
The goals of regulating work
What are the goals of labour and employment laws? For purposes of reforming, interpreting, and defending such laws, it is important to articulate their goals. This article is concerned with the general goals of regulating work relations (i.e., goals shared by different regulations in this field) at the level of normative justifications. The various goals mentioned in the literature are reviewed and discussed. It is argued that these goals can be …
Prolonged Armed Conflict and Diminished Deference to the Military
We examine whether the level of deference shown by the Israeli Supreme Court to military decisions has changed over time by empirically analyzing the entire body of Supreme Court decisions in petitions against the military commander between 1990 and 2005. Setting forth a number of different factors that might generally affect the degree of deference to state agencies, we hypothesized that there would be a decrease in deference in the relationship…
A Purposive Interpretation of the National Minimum Wage Act
This article uses a purposive method of interpretation to suggest solutions to various questions raised in the application of the National Minimum Wage Act (NMWA). The article first considers the goals of minimum wage laws (and the NMWA in particular) by putting forward the justifications for such laws and addressing critiques. It is argued that the minimum wage is best understood as a mechanism for redistribution of resources and ensuring respec…
The Three Axes of Employment Relationships
The distinction between employees and independent contractors has been described as the “cornerstone” of labour and employment laws, but proved difficult to apply. This thesis is concerned with the question of who should be considered an employee in the context of protective labour and employment laws, i.e. what kinds of workers should be covered by such laws. The basic approach is purposive; the scope of protective regulations—and accordingly th…
Prolonged Armed Conflict and Diminished Deference to the Military
We examine whether the level of deference shown by the Israeli Supreme Court to military decisions has changed over time by empirically analyzing the entire body of Supreme Court decisions in petitions against the military commander between 1990 and 2005. Setting forth a number of different factors that might generally affect the degree of deference to state agencies, we hypothesized that there would be a decrease in deference in the relationship…
A Purposive Interpretation of the National Minimum Wage Act
This article uses a purposive method of interpretation to suggest solutions to various questions raised in the application of the National Minimum Wage Act (NMWA). The article first considers the goals of minimum wage laws (and the NMWA in particular) by putting forward the justifications for such laws and addressing critiques. It is argued that the minimum wage is best understood as a mechanism for redistribution of resources and ensuring respec…
The Three Axes of Employment Relationships
The distinction between employees and independent contractors has been described as the “cornerstone” of labour and employment laws, but proved difficult to apply. This thesis is concerned with the question of who should be considered an employee in the context of protective labour and employment laws, i.e. what kinds of workers should be covered by such laws. The basic approach is purposive; the scope of protective regulations—and accordingly th…
The Three Axes of Employment Relationships
The distinction between employees and independent contractors has been described as the “cornerstone” of labour and employment laws, but proved difficult to apply. This thesis is concerned with the question of who should be considered an employee in the context of protective labour and employment laws, i.e. what kinds of workers should be covered by such laws. The basic approach is purposive; the scope of protective regulations—and accordingly th…
A Purposive Interpretation of the National Minimum Wage Act
This article uses a purposive method of interpretation to suggest solutions to various questions raised in the application of the National Minimum Wage Act (NMWA). The article first considers the goals of minimum wage laws (and the NMWA in particular) by putting forward the justifications for such laws and addressing critiques. It is argued that the minimum wage is best understood as a mechanism for redistribution of resources and ensuring respec…
Prolonged Armed Conflict and Diminished Deference to the Military
We examine whether the level of deference shown by the Israeli Supreme Court to military decisions has changed over time by empirically analyzing the entire body of Supreme Court decisions in petitions against the military commander between 1990 and 2005. Setting forth a number of different factors that might generally affect the degree of deference to state agencies, we hypothesized that there would be a decrease in deference in the relationship…
The goals of regulating work
What are the goals of labour and employment laws? For purposes of reforming, interpreting, and defending such laws, it is important to articulate their goals. This article is concerned with the general goals of regulating work relations (i.e., goals shared by different regulations in this field) at the level of normative justifications. The various goals mentioned in the literature are reviewed and discussed. It is argued that these goals can be …
A Purposive Approach to Labour Law
The book addresses the ‘crisis’ of labour law by taking a purposive approach. First, it articulates the goals of labour law. The general goals of labour law are examined and justified, at different level of abstraction. This requires an in-depth normative discussion, including a consideration of critiques. Labour law can be understood as a solution to a ‘labour problem’, such as the vulnerabilities of democratic deficits and dependency. It can al…
Flexibility, choice, and labour law
Working through platforms is a recent but fast-growing phenomenon, with obvious implications for workers’ rights. Discussions have so far focused on the status of platform-based workers, but, recently, a growing consensus is emerging by courts around the world that workers for platforms such as Uber are in fact employees. As a result, legal disputes are likely to shift, to a large extent, from status questions to working-time questions. This migh…
Consent in Contracts of Employment
This article considers the problem of questionable consent in contracts of employment. We suggest that in the context of employment, consent should be understood as a continuum that includes some level of coercion and some level of choice. We show that despite labour law's assumption of inequality of bargaining power, consent is still legally valid in various contexts of employment. We propose some solutions: procedural rules increasing the chanc…
The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work
At the core of all societies and economies are human beings deploying their energies and talents in productive activities—that is, at work. The law governing human productive activity is a large part of what determines outcomes in terms of social justice, material wellbeing, and the sustainability of both. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that work is heavily regulated. This book is about the ‘law of work’, a term that includes legislation set…
Using AI to Mitigate the Employee Misclassification Problem
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is widespread. This article aims to make two contributions. My first goal is to sharpen the explanation of why misclassifications persist; I argue that three well‐known problems – the indeterminacy of employee status tests, the barriers to self‐enforcement, and the inequality of bargaining power – together combine to give employers de facto power to set the default legal status. Putting th…
Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Labour law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)