Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282807 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16680
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life satisfaction of healthcare workers, as compared to the wider workforce, in five European countries. In ten waves of quarterly panel data, the life satisfaction of healthcare workers is always higher than that of other essential workers and non-essential workers. Life satisfaction follows a double humped pattern over time for all workers, which is largely explained by the COVID-19 death rate and policy stringency. The spread of the pandemic in terms of the death rate has twice as large an effect on healthcare workers' life satisfaction; on the contrary, the latter are the only workers whose satisfaction was not affected by the stringency of lockdown policies.
Subjects: 
healthcare workers
life satisfaction
COVID-19
policy stringency
JEL: 
H51
I18
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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