{"id":119,"date":"2023-06-05T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-06-17T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T15:01:05","slug":"new-research-paper-explores-fairness-in-gig-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/05\/new-research-paper-explores-fairness-in-gig-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairness in gig economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Recent publication of the Autofair project proposes a novel market-clearing mechanism to close the gender gap in two-sided markets. Application potential ranges from ride-hailing services like Uber to college admissions or labour markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is well known that two-sided markets, where buyers and sellers interact through a platform, are unfair in various ways. For instance, female drivers on ride-hailing platforms like Uber earn less than their male counterparts per mile driven. Similar observations have been made for other minority subgroups in other two-sided markets. In their research article, Quan Zhou, Robert Shorten and Jakub Mare\u010dek propose a novel market-clearing mechanism for two-sided markets that promotes equalization of pay per hour worked across multiple subgroups as well as within each subgroup. In doing so, the authors introduce a novel notion of subgroup fairness called <strong>Inter-fairness<\/strong>, which can be combined with other notions of fairness within each subgroup (called Intra-fairness) and the utility for the customers in the objective of the market-clearing problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the research, the authors have explored the trade-off between Intra-group and Inter-group fairness using the Yellow Taxi Trip Dataset as an example of a ride-hailing platform. They have shown that considering both objectives simultaneously is possible within the market-clearing and leads to an efficiently approximable non-convex augmented Lagrangian formulation. The implementation is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Quan-Zhou\/Fairness-in-Two-Sided-Markets\">Fairness-in-Two-Sided-Markets<\/a> (Github repository).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notion, insights, and algorithms may be applicable across a range of two-sided markets, such as <strong>online labor platforms <\/strong>and <strong>college admissions<\/strong>, and could possibly be extended to a comprehensive framework for multiple fairness criteria. This work could also contribute to a theoretical foundation for the study of fairness in two-sided markets.<br><strong>See the publication: <\/strong>Zhou Q, Mare\u010dek J, Shorten R (2023) Subgroup fairness in two-sided markets. PLoS One 18(2): e0281443. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0281443\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0281443<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent publication of the Autofair project proposes a novel market-clearing mechanism to close the gender gap in two-sided markets. Application potential ranges from ride-hailing services like Uber to college admissions or labour markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humancompatible.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}