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Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic abuse: anincrease in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partnerviolence from the British Crime Survey with locally disaggregated labor market data from the UK's Annual Population Survey, we find strong evidence in support of the theoretical prediction.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4315
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other
- Subject
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domestic violence
unemployment
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Anderberg, Dan
Rainer, Helmut
Wadsworth, Jonathan
Wilson, Tanya
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Anderberg, Dan
- Rainer, Helmut
- Wadsworth, Jonathan
- Wilson, Tanya
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2013
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