Digital labour platforms as shock absorbers: Evidence from COVID-19

Sam Jones and Ivan Manhique

No wp-2022-108, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Digital labour platforms have grown five-fold over the last decade, enabling significant expansion in gig work worldwide. We interrogate the criticism that these platforms tend to amplify aggregate economic shocks for registered users (workers). Based on the universe of records from a matching platform for informal sector manual freelancers in Mozambique, we analyse how task supply and demand altered with the onset of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Digital platforms; Labour market; Shocks; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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