Pascuel Plotkin

6000 iona drive · vancouver, bc v6t1l4 · pascuel1@student.ubc.ca

I am a PhD candidate at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia. My research interests are labor and development economics. Much of my research examines how alternative work arrangements affect inequality, workers and firms. You can find my CV here.

I will be a Postdoctoral Researcher at CEMFI during the 2025–2026 academic year, and in July 2026 I will join the Department of Markets, Public Policy & Law at Boston University as an Assistant Professor.


Job Market Paper

Dinner at Your Door: How Delivery Platforms Affect Workers and Firms

Awarded Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) Best Paper, 2025

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Publications

Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence form Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data

Review of Economics and Statistics, 105, no. 1 (2023): 206-216

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Working Papers

The Consequences of Domestic Outsourcing on Workers: New Evidence from Italian Administrative Data

Last update: September 2024

Does it Matter Where and What I Study? Evidence from the Oil Price Crash in Canada

Last update: November 2024


Work in Progress

Labor Supply of the Gig Economy: Evidence From the Online-Delivery Industry in Brazil

Awarded J-PAL JOI Brazil Pilot Grant, 2023

Algorithmic v.s. Human Bias in Hiring

with Sam Gyetvay and Choenden Kyirong

Disempowered Unions, Collective Bargaining, and Wage Inequality