Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures

First results from SHARE Corona Waves 1 and 2

Axel Börsch-Supan, Anita Abramowska-Kmon, Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Agar Brugiavini, Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak, Florence Jusot, Anne Laferrère, Howard Litwin, Sime Smolic, Guglielmo Weber, Axel Börsch-Supan, Anita Abramowska-Kmon, Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Agar Brugiavini, Florence Jusot, Anne Laferrère, Howard Litwin, Guglielmo Weber, Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak, Sime Smolic, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Šime Smolić, Axel Börsch-Supan, Anita Abramowska-Kmon, Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Agar Brugiavini, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Florence Jusot, Anne Laferrère, Howard Litwin, Šime Smolić, Guglielmo Weber

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111135908
• Subtopic: Microeconomics
• Index: Economics

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a major threat to the well-being of older Europeans. Its economic and social effects, however, varied across countries. This multidisciplinary book presents the first results of analyses that combined the renowned longitudinal database of SHARE with new data from two telephone surveys that were uniquely conducted during the pandemic. The analyses address important policy-related issues, such as: Did social distancing destabilize family and social support networks? Did the pandemic increase health, social and economic inequality? Who had to forego essential health care because of the pandemic? Did lockdown affect one's physical and mental health? Did the shift towards remote work affect workload and well-being? Were different housing conditions related to the spread of the virus?

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editors
• Contributors
• 1 Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures
• Part I Quality of health care
• 2 Persistence of limited access to health care for older Europeans in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic
• 3 The impact of unmet health care needs on self-assessed health and functional limitations during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
• 4 Inequality of opportunity in the risk of suffering from persistent symptoms of COVID-19
• 5 Economic and health system policies during the pandemic and the mental health of older adults
• Part II Health and health behaviours in the pandemic
• 6 Personal contact with other people and mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 7 Developments in feelings of loneliness and depression among older adults in Europe and Israel during the pandemic
• 8 Longitudinal changes in mental health following the first COVID-19 lockdown in Europe
• 9 Precautionary behaviour and behavioural risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the second SHARE Corona survey
• 10 Risk factors of post COVID-19 condition attributed to COVID-19 disease in people aged 50+ in Europe and Israel
• 11 Sex differences in activity and mental health changes following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
• Part III Employment and labour market during the pandemic
• 12 Did the pandemic change retirement trends?
• 13 Short-time employment aid during the COVID-19 lockdown: Shortand long-run effectiveness
• 14 Work interruptions and medium-term labour market outcomes of older workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 15 What is the future of (remote) work?
• 16 Changes in work performance and work losses during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 17 Containment measures and job loss: Evidence from SHARE CORONA surveys
• 18 Internet use during the pandemic
• Part IV Income and economic situation
• 19 Persistence of economic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 20 Effects of COVID-19-related economic support on household financial distress
• 21 How the first wave of the pandemic affected household finances
• 22 Financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic
• 23 Pandemic lockdowns: The role of economic and demographic structures
• Part V Social and geographical patterns
• 24 Receiving care at home during the COVID-19 pandemic: Revisiting the situations of care recipients 18 months after the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2
• 25 Effects of lockdown measures on receiving home care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A subgroup analysis
• 26 Prayer frequency and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among people aged 50+: A comparison of European regions
• 27 Two Nordic countries with different approaches to handling the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of Sweden and Denmark
• 28 Epidemiological control measures and subjective age among people aged 50 or older
• Part VI Housing and living arrangements
• 29 Do intergenerational co-residence and multigenerational housing arrangements increase the risk of COVID-19 morbidity? Findings from SHARE
• 30 Housing conditions, living arrangements, and mental well-being of Europeans aged 50+: How the COVID- 19 pandemic made a difference
• 31 Housing, living arrangements, and contagion among Europeans aged 50+
• 32 Health status of older Europeans living alone: The role of living arrangements, healthcare, and social supports in the COVID-19 pandemic