Abstract
This article presents an overview of the use of sharing economy platforms. We focus on three types of platforms (carpooling, home-sharing and peer-to-peer/ C2C marketplace). We use survey data from a sample of 2,000 Internet users that are representative of the French population. The aim is to understand who uses sharing economy platforms, what factors promote or hinder adoption, and who benefits most from the platforms. We show that the decision to use a sharing economy platform is correlated to several socio-economic characteristics. Young, highly-educated individuals with a comfortable living standard are more likely to use such platforms. In addition, we highlight the impact of social trust and sociability on the probability of adopting these platforms (on both supply and demand sides). Themagnitude of these effects differs according to the type of platform. Our results also show that users with a high degree of trust in others and a comfortable standard of living are those who get the highest revenues on sharing economy platforms, suggesting an increase in equalities.
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