Caldwell, Sydnee (2021) Leasing a licence to drive a taxi or giving a cut of the fares to a ride-sharing company? LSE Business Review (07 Sep 2021). Blog Entry.
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Abstract
Taxi drivers in the United States pay upfront to buy or lease a medallion and keep the fares for themselves. With Uber or Lyft drivers, instead, no medallion is required, but they must pay a proportion of the fares to the ride-share companies. Sydnee Caldwell and colleagues conducted a series of experiments and found a strong aversion to the medallion lease model among drivers: 81% of them would prefer paying a 25% fee to paying a $200 weekly lease.
Item Type: | Online resource (Blog Entry) |
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Official URL: | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/ |
Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author |
Divisions: | LSE |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2021 15:36 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 20:53 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112267 |
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