Education, health behavior, and working conditions during the pandemic: evidence from a German sample.

Autor/inn/en	Hoenig, Kerstin; Wenz, Sebastian E.
Titel	Education, health behavior, and working conditions during the pandemic: evidence from a German sample. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Bildung, Gesundheitsverhalten und Arbeitsbedingungen während der Pandemie: Erkenntnisse aus einer deutschen Stichprobe.
Quelle	In: European societies, 23 (2021) Suppl. 1, S. S275-S288 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-6696; 1469-8307
DOI	10.1080/14616696.2020.1824004
Schlagwörter	Soziale Isolation; Soziale Ungleichheit; Bildungsabschluss; Gesundheitsgefährdung; Gesundheitsverhalten; Pandemie; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Arbeitsbedingungen; Kurzarbeit; Qualifikation; Telearbeit; Auswirkung; Krisenmanagement; Prävention
Abstract	"Education is a main cause of health inequality because it influences health behavior as well as structural conditions that impact health, such as living and working conditions. We examine how different educational groups reacted to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany by looking at health-related behavior - social distancing, increased hygiene, and mask wearing - as well as changes in working conditions - work from home, reduced working hours, and not working - as a structural indicator that can mitigate the risk of infection. More than three quarters of respondents in all educational groups complied with recommended social distancing and hand hygiene behaviors, and differences by education did not exceed ten percentage points. Regarding working conditions, highly educated respondents had a likelihood of over 45 percent to work from home during the pandemic. This number decreased to 17 and 11 percent for those with intermediate and low levels of education, respectively. It seems that education-based inequalities in the risk of infection with COVID-19 do not primarily stem from differences in health behavior but rather from structural causes, that is, inability to practice social distancing at work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/1