Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/77691
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4315
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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 <i>decreases</i> the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment <i>increases</i> 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.
Subjects: 
domestic violence
unemployment
JEL: 
J12
D19
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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