UNEMPLOYMENT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Wilson, Tanya
• 署名单位: University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Munich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12246
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1947-1979
• 关键词: private provision; income

摘要

Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally disaggregated labour market data from the UK's Annual Population Survey, we find strong evidence in support of the theoretical prediction.