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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Main Authors:	Bhalotra, Sonia, Kambhampati, Uma, Rawlings, Samantha, Siddique, Zahra
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT MALE BACKLASH MARRIED WORKING WOMEN EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET MALE UNEMPLOYMENT ACCESS TO DIVORCE
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

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spelling	okr-10986-332322022-09-20T00:11:45Z Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women Bhalotra, Sonia Kambhampati, Uma Rawlings, Samantha Siddique, Zahra VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT MALE BACKLASH MARRIED WORKING WOMEN EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET MALE UNEMPLOYMENT ACCESS TO DIVORCE 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. 2020-01-23T21:35:28Z 2020-01-23T21:35:28Z 2020-01 Working Paper 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 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9118 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT MALE BACKLASH MARRIED WORKING WOMEN EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET MALE UNEMPLOYMENT ACCESS TO DIVORCE
spellingShingle	VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT MALE BACKLASH MARRIED WORKING WOMEN EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET MALE UNEMPLOYMENT ACCESS TO DIVORCE Bhalotra, Sonia Kambhampati, Uma Rawlings, Samantha Siddique, Zahra Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9118
description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Bhalotra, Sonia Kambhampati, Uma Rawlings, Samantha Siddique, Zahra
author_facet	Bhalotra, Sonia Kambhampati, Uma Rawlings, Samantha Siddique, Zahra
author_sort	Bhalotra, Sonia
title	Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
title_short	Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
title_full	Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
title_fullStr	Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
title_full_unstemmed	Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women
title_sort	intimate partner violence : the influence of job opportunities for men and women
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	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
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