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New poll highlights concern over gig workers' prospects
Food delivery riders, ride-hailing drivers tend to be young and low-income, survey finds
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The gig economy landscape, which began to grow five years ago, has seen considerable change.
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Yuen Sin, Janice Tai
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Half of the food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers here earn a monthly household per capita income of $1,500 or less, putting them in the bottom third of Singapore's workers.
Blue-collar gig economy workers also tend to be young: Three-quarters of them are aged 35 and below.
