Problem definition. Motivated by the debate around drivers' welfare in on-demand transportation, we propose a framework to evaluate current practices and also possible alternatives. We study a setting in which riders seek drivers and a platform facilitates such matches over the course of the...

The present study examines the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa using individual cross section data for 2000-7. Results from unconditional quantile regressions and generalised Oaxaca-Blinder type decompositions show that the wage gap is inverted-U shaped across the wage...