Does Uber work for drivers?

Judy Chevalier from Yale School of Management asks whether flexibility provides benefits to gig workers, based on data collected from 200,000 Uber drivers over a 9-month period.

Does flexibility provide benefits to gig workers? Judy Chevalier from Yale School of Management talks about her work on data collected from 200,000 Uber drivers over a 9-month period, which reveals that the amount a driver is prepared to drive for (their reservation wage) will change across time-periods.

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Topics:  Industrial organisation Labour markets

Tags:  gig economy, Uber, flexible working

Judith A. Chevalier

William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics, Yale School of Management

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