He, Q.; Qiu, Y., and Dong, X., 2019. Job selection behavior of flexible employment personnel of sharing economic platform: An empirical study of the Pearl River delta regions. In: Li, L.; Wan, X.; and Huang, X. (eds.), Recent Developments in Practices and Research on Coastal Regions: Transportation, Environment and Economy. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98, pp. 385–391. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.

Flexible employment personnel in sharing economic platform have become a huge and rapidly growing labor group in new employment form. This paper discusses the impact of different platform-based flexible employment groups on job selection behaviors. Focus is made on analysis of the mediating role of workers' subjectivity and regulatory effects of platform policies on different worker types and workers' subjectivity. The theoretical contributions of this paper are as follows: first, contribution to typology. Platform-based flexible employment personnel are divided based on human capital and social capital into: conceptual, improvement, transaction, and professional types. The scientificity of such classifications is verified using clustering analysis, which is an extension of previous worker group classification and is more applicable to plural worker types in the current sharing economy. Workers' subjectivity is classified based on subjective perception of income and job satisfaction into rational, depressed, pessimistic, and optimistic types, which lays a theoretical and empirical basis for further deconstructing subjective structural dimension of platform-based flexible employment personnel. Second, the data of Pearl River Delta platform-based flexible employment personnel is employed to verify that workers' subjectivity is a partial mediating variable in job selection behavior of different platform-based flexible employment personnel. Platform policy plays a regulatory role in the interaction between different types of workers and their subjectivity. Studies found that, unlike traditional employment choices, subjectivity is crucial to job behavior choice of platform-based flexible employment personnel. Therefore, the government should design more diversified and flexible policies when formulating incentive policies to improve workers' satisfaction and stimulate their subjectivity.