Understanding the impact of COVID-19 intervention policies on the hospitality labor market

•We integrate multiple datasets to examine how COVID-19 intervention policies impact the hospitality labor market.•We find that business closure policies are associated with a 20–30% reduction of non-salaried workers in the hospitality industry with the biggest impact on leisure from March-April of 2020.•Business reopening policies play a statistically significant role in slowly reviving the labor market.•The rise of new cases on a daily basis is associated with the continued deterioration of the labor market.