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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w24732 |
来源ID | Working Paper 24732 |
The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers | |
Cody Cook; Rebecca Diamond; Jonathan Hall; John A. List; Paul Oyer | |
发表日期 | 2018-06-25 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The growth of the “gig” economy generates worker flexibility that, some have speculated, will favor women. We explore this by examining labor supply choices and earnings among more than a million rideshare drivers on Uber in the U.S. We document a roughly 7% gender earnings gap amongst drivers. We completely explain this gap and show that it can be entirely attributed to three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where to work (driven largely by where drivers live and, to a lesser extent, safety), and preferences for driving speed. We do not find that men and women are differentially affected by a taste for specific hours, a return to within-week work intensity, or customer discrimination. Our results suggest that there is no reason to expect the “gig” economy to close gender differences. Even in the absence of discrimination and in flexible labor markets, women’s relatively high opportunity cost of non-paid-work time and gender-based differences in preferences and constraints can sustain a gender pay gap. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Compensation |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24732 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582405 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cody Cook,Rebecca Diamond,Jonathan Hall,et al. The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers. 2018. |
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