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The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers

Cook, Cody, Diamond, Rebecca, Hall, Jonathan V, List, John A, Oyer, Paul·2021·The Review of Economic Studies
DOI 10.1093/restud/rdaa081
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The growth of the “gig” economy generates worker flexibility that, some have speculated, will favour women. We explore this by examining labour 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 show that this gap can be entirely attributed to three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences and constraints 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, in a “gig” economy setting with no gender discrimination and highly flexible labour 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.

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Authors
Cook, C., Diamond, R., Hall, J. V., List, J. A., & Oyer, P.
Venue
The Review of Economic Studies
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2020-11-27
Volume
88
Issue
5
Pages
2210-2238
ISSN
  • 0034-6527 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-937X
DOI
10.1093/restud/rdaa081
OpenAlex
W3122871745
Cited by
304
References
31
FWCI
35.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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Cook, C., Diamond, R., Hall, J. V., List, J. A., & Oyer, P. (2021). The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers. The Review of Economic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa081

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