Gender-based violence at work as a factor inhibiting women's participation in the Mexican labor market

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze labor violence as a factor that inhibits women's participation in the Mexican labor market. The hypothesis to be tested is based on the following: Gender-based labor violence is a factor that inhibits women's participation in the Mexican labor market. For the empirical test, a probit model is estimated, and marginal effects are calculated. The data used are from the Encuesta Nacional sobre la Dinámica de las Relaciones de los Hogares (ENDIREH) 2016. Violence is classified as: economic, sexual, psychological, and physical. The results indicate the presence of violence against women in the workplace and inhibits women's labor participation, although the magnitude of the effects is different by type of violence, with economic violence having the greatest magnitude. The schooling and age variables show a negative relationship with respect to job abandonment, a behavior linked to increasing opportunity costs, while indicators related to the degree of commitment or need of women (head of household, married or having children) reduce the probability of desertion from the labor market.