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Nóesis. Revista de ciencias sociales
On-line version ISSN 2395-8669Print version ISSN 0188-9834
Abstract
ZEPEDA HERNANDEZ, Yei Javier and SANTILLAN HERNANDEZ, Alma Sofía. Intimate partner violence and its relationship to labor income. Nóesis, Rev. cienc. soc. [online]. 2024, vol.33, n.65, pp.47-65. Epub June 07, 2024. ISSN 2395-8669. https://doi.org/10.20983/noesis.2024.1.3.
In Mexico, 70.1% of women have been victims of violence in their lifetime and the main perpetrator is her intimate partner. Gender violence is a public health problem that has multiple negative impacts in woman and their offsprings. The relation violence and income is an issue that has been scarcely studied for Mexico. The objective of this article is to analyze the intimate partner violence and its relationship to labor income for Mexican women, data used are from the National Survey on the Dynamics of Households Relationships (ENDIREH 2021). The principal component method is used to estimate five kinds of violence; physical, emotional, economic, sexual and, harassment. The instrumental variables method is used to consider the endogeneity of income and violence variables. Except harassment, the results indicate a negative relationship between income and violence. Specifically, sexual violence has the greatest negative effects; women who are victims of sexual violence have an average reduction of 17.4% in monthly labor income. This negative effect represents a loss of just over two month of working days per year and, in the aggregate terms, is equivalent to 0.87% of GDP. The above highlights the importance of orienting public policy actions to work in prevention, attention, punishment and eradications any kind of violence against women.
Keywords : Intimate partner violence; Labor income; Endogeneity; Instrumental variables; Cost of violence.