COVID-19Gig EconomyLabor SupplyGender InequalityUsing data from a large online education platform with more than 100,000 gig workers, we investigate the causal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gig economy lCao, XinyuZhang, DennisHuang, Lei...
Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected gig economy workers due to the contingent and precarious nature of their work. Many gig economy workers have had to adapt quickly to new forms of working, and even learn new skills, to sustain their livelihood. A...
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What does the alternative workforce and gig economy mean for GBS and shared services organizations in light of COVID-19? The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the alternative workforce for helping keep a disrupted economy afloat. GBS and shared services organizations ma...
After thousands of people lost their jobs during the COVID-19 outbreak, the media began paying more attention to the gig economy. All of this happened because people needed a new way to pay money that didn’trequire them to be in an office all day. ...
We use a dataset covering nearly the entire target population based on passively collected data from smartphones to measure the impact of the first COVID-19 wave on the gig economy in Poland. In particular, we focus on transportation (Uber, Bolt) and delivery (Wolt, Takeaway, Glover, DeliGo...
Administration Davide Proserpio was one of the first academics to study the sharing economy as he completed his Ph.D. Today he is considered a leading expert in the so-called “gig” economy. We asked him five questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant shutdown are affecting ...
While there is growing literature regarding the impact of the gig economy in countries of the Global North, the way it operates in Latin America and the Caribbean remains underexplored. This article describes platform work in Chile, especially in the context of COVID-19, which has highlighted th...
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In short, the COVID-19 crisis only underscores the downsides of being your own boss: the absence of paid sick leave, worker’s compensation, or income protection. Satisfying this need has become particularly urgent amid an ongoing pandemic, leading to the introduction of paid sick leave polic...