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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cook, Cody; Diamond, Rebecca; Hall, Jonathan, V; List, John A.; Oyer, Paul
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Uber Technologies, Inc.; University of Chicago; Australian National University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdaa081
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 2210-2238
• 关键词: pay gap; experience; TRENDS

摘要

The growth of the gig economy generatesworker 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 showthat 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.