RT Generic
T1 Employment and the Risk of Domestic Violence: Does the Breadwinner's Gender Matter?
A1 Alonso-Borrego, César
A1 Carrasco, Raquel
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB This paper studies the effect on the risk of female victimization of the employment statuses of both partners, conditional on income and a set of sociodemographic characteristics. Using cross-sectional data from the Violence Against Women (VAW) surveys for Spain in 1999, 2002, and 2006, we address the potential endogeneity of employment and income variables using a multivariate probit model. We exploit geographical-level information on employment and unemployment rates by gender and age, and on household income, to identify the parameters of the model. Our estimation results, for which proper account of the endogeneity problem proves critical, show that male partner employment plays a major role in the risk of physical violence, while female employment only lowers the risk of violence when her partneris employed too. The lowest risk of physical abuse appears for more egalitarian couples in which both partners are employed.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2016
FD 2016-03-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22575
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22575
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 27 jul. 2024