While many commentators perceive unemployment to be a key risk factor for intimate partner violence, the empirical … estimate the effects of total and gender-specific unemployment rates on domestic violence. The analysis uses the substantial … variation in the increase in unemployment across areas, gender, and age-groups associated with the onset of the latest recession …

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 …

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 …

performance, like unemployment or wage rates, show little departure from recent norms over the first few months of the crisis. The …

. On average, it seems that immigration has not had much of an effect on either employment or pay. However, there may be …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …