Arbeitspapier
Pandemic depression: COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 2002
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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self-employment
COVID-19
mental health
gender
representative longitudinal survey data
PHQ-4 score
resilience
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Caliendo, Marco
Graeber, Daniel
Kritikos, Alexander
Seebauer, Johannes
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
- (wo)
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Berlin
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Caliendo, Marco
- Graeber, Daniel
- Kritikos, Alexander
- Seebauer, Johannes
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2022
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