Loss of financial well-being in the COVID-19 pandemic: Does job stability make a difference?

Kelmara Mendes Vieira, Ani Caroline Grigion Potrich, Aureliano Bressan () and Leander Luiz Klein

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021, vol. 31, issue C

Abstract: This article aims to assess the loss of financial well-being in the COVID-19 pandemic. The developed theoretical model identifies the impacts of the perception of financial risk and financial anxiety on financial well-being. It also seeks, through a comparative analysis, to assess whether public servants, due to their status of job stability in Brazil, are less likely to have the effects of the pandemic than private employees. A survey was carried out on 1222 Brazilians with structural equation modeling and multi-group invariance tests. The results indicate that lower financial well-being is influenced by the level of financial anxiety and financial risk. Public servants perceive fewer losses in financial well-being, anxiety and risks than other professions. In the pandemic context, where the risks of unemployment and loss of income are increased, job stability works like an insurance, allowing public servants greater financial security and then minor losses of financial well-being. Evidence indicates that in countries where a large percentage of workers have temporary or informal jobs, the challenge of reducing the financial impacts of the pandemic will be great. Interventions to alleviating anxiety and public policies of income transfer and reduction of unemployment are instruments to reduce the loss of financial well-being.

Keywords: Financial well-being; Financial anxiety; Financial risk; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100554

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