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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w23891 |
来源ID | Working Paper 23891 |
Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver\u2019s Eye View | |
Joshua D. Angrist; Sydnee Caldwell; Jonathan V. Hall | |
发表日期 | 2017-10-09 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their fares to the ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditional taxi drivers in most US cities make a fixed payment independent of their earnings, usually a weekly or daily medallion lease, but keep every fare dollar net of expenses. We assess these compensation models from a driver’s point of view using an experiment that offered random samples of Boston Uber drivers opportunities to lease a virtual taxi medallion that eliminates the Uber fee. Some drivers were offered a negative fee. Drivers’ labor supply response to our offers reveals a large intertemporal substitution elasticity, on the order of 1.2. At the same time, our virtual lease program was under-subscribed: many drivers who would have benefitted from buying an inexpensive lease chose to opt out. We use these results to compute the average compensation required to make drivers indifferent between ride-hailing and a traditional taxi compensation contract. The results suggest that ride-hailing drivers gain considerably from the opportunity to drive without leasing. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Market Structures ; Labor Relations |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23891 |
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/581565 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua D. Angrist,Sydnee Caldwell,Jonathan V. Hall. Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver\u2019s Eye View. 2017. |
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