Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rate is a...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/961291579703477493/Intimate-Partner-Violence-The-Influence-of-Job-Opportunities-for-Men-and-Women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33232 |
| Summary: | This study examines the association of
unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using
representative data from thirty-one developing countries,
through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in
the male unemployment rate is associated with an increase in
the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50
percentage points, or 2.75 percent. This is consistent with
financial and psychological stress generated by
unemployment. Female unemployment rates have the opposite
effect, a 1 percent decrease being associated with an
increase in the probability of victimization of 0.52
percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in
women's employment opportunities is associated with
increased violence is consistent with male backlash. The
study finds that this pattern of behaviours emerges entirely
from countries in which women have more limited access to
divorce than men. |
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