Violence Against Women at Work

Abigail Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix and Ning Zhang

No 17504, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Between-colleague conflicts are common. We link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify assaults between colleagues, and economic outcomes for victims, perpetrators, and firms. We document large, persistent labor market impacts of between-colleague violence on victims and perpetrators. Male perpetrators experience substantially weaker consequences after attacking women compared to men. Perpetrators' economic power in male-female violence partly explains this asymmetry. Male-female violence causes a decline in women at the firm. There is no change in within-network hiring, ruling out supply-side explanations via "whisper networks". Only male-managed firms lose women. Female managers do one important thing differently: fire perpetrators.

JEL-codes: J16 J21 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-07
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