Pandemic depression: COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations:	Caliendo, Marco (Author), Graeber, Daniel (Author), Kritikos, Alexander (Author), Seebauer, Johannes (Author)
Other Authors:	Graeber, Daniel [Author] • Kritikos, Alexander 1965- [Author] • Seebauer, Johannes [Author]
Type of Resource:	E-Book
Language:	English
published:	Berlin DIW Berlin, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 2022
Series:	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: Discussion papers ; 2002
Subjects:	Self-employment COVID-19 mental health gender representative longitudinal survey data PHQ-4 score resilience
Source:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 69 Seiten); Illustrationen