Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?: findings from a qualitative study of platform providers
通过对美国三个营利性平台（Airbnb、RelayRides和TaskRabbit）的提供者进行访谈，发现这些提供者大多受过高等教育且拥有高薪全职工作，他们利用平台增加收入，并从事传统上由低教育水平工人完成的体力劳动，从而加剧了底层80%人群的收入不平等。
The sharing economy has generated controversy for its effects on labour conditions, wages and the distributions of income and wealth. In this article, we present evidence for a previously unrecognized effect: increased income inequality among the bottom 80% of the distribution. On the basis of interviews with US providers on three for-profit platforms (Airbnb, RelayRides and TaskRabbit), we find that providers are highly educated and many have well-paying full-time jobs. They use the platforms to augment their incomes. Furthermore, many are engaging in manual labour, including cleaning, moving and other tasks that are traditionally done by workers with low educational attainment, suggesting a crowding-out effect.