Three essays on labor economics
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Vancouver School of Economics
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Plotkin, Pascuel
issued: 2025-06-10T18:31:00Z
issued: 2025
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Chapter 2 examines the impact of online-delivery platforms on the labor market. These platforms, emblematic of recent technological shifts, alter both workforce composition and product demand. While they can create new opportunities for workers with limited outside options, they may also displace âgood jobs.â Using novel Brazilian data that link employer-employee records to both restaurants and a major delivery platform, and applying a matched event-study design, I estimate the effects of platform adoption on labor market outcomes. On average, adopting restaurants substitute in-house labor hours for outsourced platform worker hours nearly one-for-one. Workers at adopting restaurants see modest earnings losses, as most transition into new formal sector jobs. However, workers at non-adopting restaurants face higher risks of job loss and larger earnings declines, as these establishments are more likely to downsize or close. Despite these losses, the aggregate earnings gains for gig workers outweigh the losses among traditional restaurant employees, highlighting important distributional trade-offs. Chapter 3 studies rent-sharing between firms and outsourced workers. Using unique Argentinian administrative data that match temp agencies to user firms, we estimate how wage premia differ between regular and temp workers. Results show that high-wage user firms paying regular employees a 10% premium relative to low-wage firms, pay temp workers only a 4.9% premium. This is midway between full rent-sharing with insiders and a competitive spot-labor market, indicating partial but limited sharing of firm-specific wage premia with outsourced workers. Chapter 4 explores how institutional settings affect domestic outsourcing in Italy, exploiting a novel administrative identifier for outsourcing events. We estimate the impact of outsourcing across various occupations without restricting to continuously employed workers. Results show substantial earnings losses for outsourced workers,…
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note: Three Essays on Labor EconomicsbyPascuel PlotkinM.Sc., Universidad de San Andres, 2017B.Sc., Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2015A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THEREQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHYinTHE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES(Economics)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Vancouver)June 2025© Pascuel Plotkin, 2025The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Facultyof Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled:Three Essays on Labor Economicssubmitted by Pascuel Plotkin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degreeof Doctor of Philosophy in Economics.Examining Committee:Thomas Lemieux, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBCCo-SupervisorRaffaele Saggio, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBCCo-SupervisorClaudio Ferraz, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBCSupervisory Committee MemberSam Norris, Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBCSupervisory Committee MemberFlorian Hoffmann, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBCUniversity ExaminerGuillermo Marshall, Associate Professor, Sauder School of Business, UBCUniversity ExaminerJohannes Schmieder, Professor, Department of Economics, Boston UniversityExternal ExamineriiAbstractChapter 2 examines the impact of online-delivery platforms on the labor market. Theseplatforms, emblematic of recent technological shifts, alter both workforce compositionand product demand. While they can create new opportunities for workers withlimited outside options, they may also displace âgood jobs.â Using novel Brazilian datathat link employer-employee records to both restaurants and a major delivery platform,and applying a matched event-study design, I estimate the effects of platform adoptionon labor market outcomes. On average, adopting restaurants substitute in-house laborhours for outsourced platform worker hours nearly one-for-one. Workers at adoptingrestaurant…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2025-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0449085
language: eng
degree discipline: Economics
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Lemieux, Thomas
contributor: Saggio, Raffaele
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91324