Pandemic depression
- 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.
| Verfasserangaben: | Marco CaliendoORCiDGND, Daniel GraeberORCiDGND, Alexander KritikosORCiDGND, Johannes SeebauerORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221102106 |
| ISSN: | 1042-2587 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Entrepreneurship theory and practice |
| Untertitel (Englisch): | COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed |
| Verlag: | SAGE Publishing |
| Verlagsort: | Thousand Oaks |
| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 08.06.2022 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 08.01.2024 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | COVID-19; PHQ-4 score; gender; mental health; representative longitudinal survey data; resilience; self-employment |
| Band: | 47 |
| Ausgabe: | 3 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 43 |
| Erste Seite: | 788 |
| Letzte Seite: | 830 |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Peer Review: | Referiert |
| Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
