Speaker: Professor Olivier Marie (Erasmus School of Economics)
Hosted by: University of Liverpool Management School's Economics Group
Open to: Management School PhD students and academic staff, with no sign up needed
Date: Wednesday 22 May 2024
Time: 2-3.15pm
Place: 126MP-113: 126 Mount Pleasant, Lecture Theatre 113
Abstract
We investigate the impact of the rise of on-demand food delivery platforms on local employment and crime rates, leveraging the temporal and geographic disparities in their introduction in France.
Our staggered difference-in-differences approach reveals that the arrival of a delivery platform in an employment area leads to a rise in the presence of registered riders, which concurrently leads to a large reduction in drug-related crimes.
These results indicate that the gig economy fosters employment opportunities for low-skilled workers, youth, and migrants, facilitating their engagement in lawful economic activities.
Co-authored by Hugo Allouard, Grazia Cecere, José De Sousa, and Inès Picard.
Speaker
Olivier Marie is Professor of Labour Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam.
His main research interests include: economics of crime, labour economics, economics of education, family economics, micro-econometrics, and public economics.
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