TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Reuschke, Darja
AU  - Henley, Andrew
AU  - Daniel, Elizabeth
AU  - Price, Victoria
        TI  - Testing the Differential Impact of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Women  and Men in the United Kingdom
        PY  - 2021/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14216
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14216
        AB  - This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on gendered differential impact. We find that self-employment exits are not gendered but women are more likely to experience reductions in hours worked and earnings. This greater adverse impact on women's working hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater propensity to run a non-employing business and to work part-time. However, lower attitude to risk in women is associated with lower risk of reduction in earnings. Policy needs to look beyond business exits when considering crisis support for the self-employed.
        KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - self-employment
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - gender
KW  - labour supply
        ER  -