Pandemic depression : Covid-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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[2022]
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| Authors: | Caliendo, Marco ; Graeber, Daniel ; Kritikos, Alexander ; Seebauer, Johannes |
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Potsdam : University of Potsdam |
| Subject: | self-employment | COVID-19 | mental health | gender | representative longitudinalsurvey data | PHQ-4 score | resilience | Selbstständige | Self-employed | Psychische Krankheit | Mental disorder | Coronavirus | Geschlecht | Gender | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Epidemie | Epidemic |
freely available
| Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource ( 65 Seiten, 1620 KB)) Illustrationen |
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| Series: | CEPA discussion papers. - Potsdam : Center for Economic Policy Analysis, University of Potsdam, ISSN 2628-653X, ZDB-ID 2969685-9. - Vol. no. 46 (May 2022) |
| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these differences. In addition, we find larger mental health responses among self-employed women who were directly affected by government-imposed restrictions and bore an increased childcare burden due to school and daycare closures. We also find that self-employed individuals who are more resilient coped better with the crisis. |
| Other identifiers: | 10.25932/publishup-54899 [DOI] |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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