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 am available for interviews in the 2024/25 Job Market


Job Market Paper

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

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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