In this paper, I explore how traditional working arrangements are affected by the introduction of a gig platform. I do so by forming a novel dataset that combines comprehensive employer-employee data from the Veneto region of Italy with delivery-level information from Italy's largest on-demand delivery service platform. By exploiting the platform's staggered rollout across the region, I find the platform’s availability increases registered unemployment followed by a delayed rise in employment. Individuals that take up gig work are more likely to have fixed-term contracts with a shorter duration and spend more time registered as unemployed after the platform’s introduction.

What are the consequences of a labelling geographic areas with less favourable socio-economic characteristics? Denmark’s Ghetto Plan, which classifies public housing areas according to socio-economic indicators and treats them with limited place-based investments while also labelling them as ``ghettos'' and restricting moves into treated areas, provides a unique setting to understand them. Administrative data on all individuals living in public housing areas indicates the policy was largely ineffective in achieving its intended goals. Average incomes and the share of highly-educated individuals decrease, while the effect on crime is negligible. These effects are driven largely by compositional changes as lower income and less educate individuals replace those moving out of classified area, which we quantify as a lower-bound stigma effect dominating potentially positive effects from selection of who can move in.

This study investigates supply-side contributors to earnings disparities between foreign-born and native-born workers in Italy’s on-demand delivery sector. Using detailed administrative data, we document that foreign-born riders earn significantly less than natives, even after accounting for individual and job-related characteristics. We identify three supply-side factors: familiarity with the host country (proxied by experience), network formation (via location choice), and earnings targets.