Arbeitspapier

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4315

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other
Thema
domestic violence
unemployment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Anderberg, Dan
Rainer, Helmut
Wadsworth, Jonathan
Wilson, Tanya
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Anderberg, Dan
  • Rainer, Helmut
  • Wadsworth, Jonathan
  • Wilson, Tanya
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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