| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23296 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23296 |
| The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers | |
| M. Keith Chen; Judith A. Chevalier; Peter E. Rossi; Emily Oehlsen | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-04-03 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Participation in non-traditional work arrangements has increased dramatically over the last decade, including in settings where new technologies lower the transaction costs of providing labor flexibly. One prominent example of flexible work is the ride-sharing company Uber, which allows drivers to provide (or not provide) rides anytime they are willing to accept prevailing wages for providing this service. An Uber-style arrangement offers workers flexibility in both setting a customized work schedule and also adjusting the schedule from week to week, day to day, and hour to hour. Using data on hourly earnings for Uber drivers, we document the ways in which drivers utilize this real-time flexibility and we estimate the driver surplus generated by this flexibility. We estimate how drivers’ reservation wages vary from hour to hour, which allows us to examine the surplus and supply implications of both flexible and traditional work arrangements. Our results indicate that, while the Uber relationship may have other drawbacks, Uber drivers benefit significantly from real-time flexibility, earning more than twice the surplus they would in less flexible arrangements. If required to supply labor inflexibly at prevailing wages, they would also reduce the hours they supply by more than two-thirds. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23296 |
| 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/580970 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | M. Keith Chen,Judith A. Chevalier,Peter E. Rossi,et al. The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers. 2017. |
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