While many commentators perceive unemployment to be a key risk factor for intimate partner violence, the empirical evidence remains limited. We combine individual-level data from the British Crime Survey (BCS) with local labor market data to estimate the effects of total and gender-specific...

"Der Bericht beleuchtet die Situation der Frauen am hessischen Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarkt für das Jahr 2007, wie er sich in Daten aus der Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit für Beschäftigung, Erwerbstätigkeit, Arbeitslosigkeit und Teilnahme an aktiven arbeitsmarktpolitischen...

Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force participation of Japanese women is increasing, but women's employment is concentrated in relatively deregulated and flexible forms of non-standard and precarious employment. Women...