Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment
Using data from the Chinese Household Income Project survey, we find that self-employed women have lower levels of well-being compared with their male counterparts. When comparing individuals' well-being in self-employment and wage-employment, we discover that self-employed men have higher leve...
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| description | Using data from the Chinese Household Income Project survey, we find that self-employed women have lower levels of well-being compared with their male counterparts. When comparing individuals' well-being in self-employment and wage-employment, we discover that self-employed men have higher levels of health, the standard of living, satisfaction, and life satisfaction compared with wage-employed men, whereas self-employed women have lower levels of health and life satisfaction than their counterparts in wage-employment. Furthermore, if a given self-employed man or woman had been selected for wage employment, their well-being would not improve (controlling for individual characteristics that affect the likelihood to enter self-employment). Hence, self-employed women face a double challenge: lower well-being than both self-employed men and wage-employed women. The article discusses recommendations for future research and policy implications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d1dd64ee2c3847b2a24282085d1d43d62022-12-22T04:30:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-09-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.986288986288Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employmentLin Xiu0Yufei Ren1Department of Management Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United StatesDepartment of Economics and Health Care Management, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United StatesUsing data from the Chinese Household Income Project survey, we find that self-employed women have lower levels of well-being compared with their male counterparts. When comparing individuals' well-being in self-employment and wage-employment, we discover that self-employed men have higher levels of health, the standard of living, satisfaction, and life satisfaction compared with wage-employed men, whereas self-employed women have lower levels of health and life satisfaction than their counterparts in wage-employment. Furthermore, if a given self-employed man or woman had been selected for wage employment, their well-being would not improve (controlling for individual characteristics that affect the likelihood to enter self-employment). Hence, self-employed women face a double challenge: lower well-being than both self-employed men and wage-employed women. The article discusses recommendations for future research and policy implications.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.986288/fullself-employmentwell-beingentrepreneurshipgendergender equality |
| spellingShingle | Lin Xiu Yufei Ren Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment Frontiers in Psychology self-employment well-being entrepreneurship gender gender equality |
| title | Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment |
| title_full | Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment |
| title_fullStr | Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment |
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| title_short | Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment |
| title_sort | gain or loss the well being of women in self employment |
| topic | self-employment well-being entrepreneurship gender gender equality |
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