Guo, Xue, Cheng, Aaron 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2070-3761 and Pavlou, Paul A.
(2018)
Skill-biased technological change again? The impacts of matching platforms on local labor markets.
In: 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2018-11-04 - 2018-11-07, Phoenix, United States, USA.
Abstract
Do online matching platforms affect offline labor markets? To answer this question, we exploit a quasi-experiment setting, where a large internet-based matching platform, TaskRabbit, has gradually entered different U.S. cities since 2008. Our difference-in-differences estimation shows that the introduction of TaskRabbit is associated with a decrease in the number of local full-time workers in the traditional housekeeping industry. Moreover, the negative effect is mainly driven by a significant decrease in the number of cognitive routine workers (e.g., first line managers) after the TaskRabbit entry, given a non-significant change in that of manual non-routine workers (e.g., janitors).
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Other) |
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| Official URL: | http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2018... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2019 15:57 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2024 00:59 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102925 |
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