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.
Author details: | Marco CaliendoORCiDGND, Daniel GraeberORCiDGND, Alexander KritikosORCiDGND, Johannes SeebauerORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221102106 |
ISSN: | 1042-2587 |
Title of parent work (English): | Entrepreneurship theory and practice |
Subtitle (English): | COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed |
Publisher: | SAGE Publishing |
Place of publishing: | Thousand Oaks |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/06/08 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2024/01/08 |
Tag: | COVID-19; PHQ-4 score; gender; mental health; representative longitudinal survey data; resilience; self-employment |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 43 |
First page: | 788 |
Last Page: | 830 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |