We examine the activities of multihoming workers in the gig economy, characterized by their switching between gig economy platforms, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we use a comprehensive dataset from an analytics company that tracks the...

Using 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 labor supply and quantify how much of the impact can be attributed to lockdown policies. The average labor supply on the gig economy...

This paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty. We conclude there could be increases in poverty of a substantial magnitude-up to 400 million new...

Using monthly data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) from December through May 2020, I compare unemployment rates and hours worked last week relative to usual hours between gig workers and standard workers. Utilizing four definitions of gig work, I find gig workers fared worse than...