Covid-19: A Crisis of the Female Self-Employed
Daniel Graeber,
Alexander Kritikos and
Johannes Seebauer
No 1108, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Abstract:
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male counterparts. For our analysis, we use representative real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that self-employed individuals were much more likely to suffer income losses than employees. Among the self-employed, women were 35% more likely to experience income losses than men, as women are disproportionately working in industries that are more severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude that future policy measures intended to mitigate such shocks should account for this variation in economic hardship.
Keywords: Self-employed; COVID-19; income; gender; representative real-time survey data; decomposition methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J31 J71 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 p.
Date: 2020
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