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SUMMARY:Social Statistics Seminar Series - Lorraine Dearden
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DESCRIPTION:The impact of violence on partnered women’s labour market out
 comes: evidence from Australia\n\nLongitudinal survey data measuring dom
 estic violence (DV) is very rare which makes looking at the short- and m
 edium-term impact of the economic implications of DV in a reliable way d
 ifficult. One exception is the paper by Adams-Prassl\, Huttunen\, Nix an
 d Zhang (2024) which uses unique administrative data from Finland. They 
 find that women in abusive relationships suffer large and significant ea
 rnings and employment falls. In most countries\, however\, rich panel da
 ta on DV does not exist. This paper uses rich household panel survey dat
 a from Australia (HILDA data)\, to see if we can replicate these finding
 s from Finland when questions on physical violence (PV) but not DV are a
 sked. We compare the incidence of PV for partnered women who ever separa
 te and those who never separate and see that 23.8% of the former group h
 ave experienced at least one episode of PV whereas in the never separate
 d group it is 5.6%. From cross-sectional surveys in Australia (Australia
 n Bureau of Statistics Personal Safety Survey (PSS)) it is estimated tha
 t around 1 in 4 women have experienced violence from an intimate partner
  since the age of 15 (PSS 2021-22). We speculate that most of the differ
 ence between these two groups is due to differences in the rates of DV a
 mong the two groups.\nWe use a matched event study staggered difference 
 in difference design as proposed by Callaway and Sant’Anna (2021) for ou
 r two groups. Whilst we find no significant effects of PV for our never-
 separated group of partnered women\, we find significant impacts of PV f
 or our ever-separated group\, not only in the short-term but over the wh
 ole 5-year period after the first incidence of PV. After the first incid
 ence of PV whilst partnered compared to immediately before\, such women 
 are (using 5-year weighted averages):\n(i)	more likely to reduce full-ti
 me employment by around 5.5 percentage points (an 18% decrease)\; \n(ii)
 	more likely to stop participating in the labour market with the proport
 ion not in the labour force increasing by 5.6 percentage points (a 16% i
 ncrease)\; \n(iii)	more likely to reduce the hours they spend in the lab
 our market by around 2.2 hours per week (a 12.4% decrease)\;\n(iv)	more 
 likely to have lower income from wages and salaries of $3\,356 per year 
 (a 13.2% decrease)\, lower household gross equivalised income of $8\,027
  per year (a 15.0% decrease)\, lower household disposable equivalised in
 come of $5\,382 per year (a 11.9% decrease)\, and a very significant red
 uction in family adjusted taxable income of $27\,610 per year (a 44.9% d
 ecrease)\; and are\n(v)	more likely to see an increase in Australian gov
 ernment benefit transfers which is the result of their eligibility for a
 nd amounts received due to lower means-tested incomes with an estimated 
 increase of benefits of $4\,305 per annum (a 34.2% increase).\nLike Adam
 s-Prassl et. al. (2024) we uncover compelling evidence of negative impac
 ts of likely DV on both labour market participation as well as income an
 d earnings for ever separated women. Critically\, the effects of DV are 
 not temporary and seem to imply negative economic effects for at least 5
  years.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis_2.016/2017 Boardroom
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