Arbeitspapier
Stigma of Sexual Violence and Womens Decision to Work
Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We argue that an increase in crime against women, increases the non-pecuniary costs of traveling to work, particularly in a traditional society marked by stigma against victims of sexual crimes. Our findings suggest that women are less likely to work away from home in regions where the perceived threat of sexual harassment against girls is higher. The estimate is robust to various sensitivity checks. Moreover, the deterrence effect of crime responds to the opportunity cost of work on one hand and the stigma cost of sexual crimes on the other.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 96
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
- Thema
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Crime-against-women
Labor-force-participation
stigma-cost
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Chakraborty, Tanika
Mukherjee, Anirban
Rachapalli,Swapnika Reddy
Saha, Sarani
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- (wo)
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Maastricht
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Chakraborty, Tanika
- Mukherjee, Anirban
- Rachapalli,Swapnika Reddy
- Saha, Sarani
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Entstanden
- 2017
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