Gig Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis in France: Financial Precarity and Mental Well-Being

Autor: Alexandra Roulet, Bénédicte H. Apouey, Mark Stabile, Isabelle Solal
Přispěvatelé: Paris School of Economics (PSE), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PJSE), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut Européen d'administration des Affaires (INSEAD), Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CEPR, ESSEC Business School, Essec Business School
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Adult
Employment
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Gig Economy
Population
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Article
Occupational safety and health
Health(social science)
03 medical and health sciences
Occupational Stress
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Precarity
Risk Factors
Political science
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Pandemics
Finance
education.field_of_study
030505 public health
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Public health
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Middle Aged
Health and Well-Being
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Mental health
3. Good health
Urban Studies
Financial Precarity
Mental Health
8. Economic growth
Income
Female
France
0305 other medical science
business
Zdroj: Journal of Urban Health
Journal of Urban Health, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2020, 97, pp.779-795. ⟨10.1007/s11524-020-00480-4⟩
Journal of Urban Health, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2020, 97 (6), pp.776-795. ⟨10.1007/s11524-020-00480-4⟩
Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
ISSN: 1099-3460
Popis: International audience; We set out to explore how precarious workers, particularly those employed in the gig economy, balance financial uncertainty, health risks, and mental well-being. We surveyed and interviewed precarious workers in France during the COVID-19 crisis, in March and April 2020. We oversampled gig economy workers, in particular in driving and food delivery occupations (hereafter drivers and bikers), residing in metropolitan areas. These workers cannot rely on stable incomes and are excluded from the labor protections offered to employees, features which have been exacerbated by the crisis. We analyzed outcomes for precarious workers during the mandatory lockdown in France as an extreme case to better understand how financial precarity relates to health risks and mental well-being. Our analysis revealed that 3 weeks into the lockdown, 56% of our overall sample had stopped working and respondents had experienced a 28% income drop on average. Gig economy drivers reported a significant 20 percentage point larger income decrease than other workers in our sample. Bikers were significantly more likely to have continued working outside the home during the lockdown. Yet our quantitative analysis also revealed that stress and anxiety levels were not higher for these groups and that bikers in fact reported significantly lower stress levels during the lockdown. While this positive association between being a biker and mental health may be interpreted in different ways, our qualitative data led to a nuanced understanding of the effect of gig work on mental well-being in this population group.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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