Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP17504
Authors: Abigail Adams-Prassl; Kristiina Huttunen; Emily Nix; Ning Zhang
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.
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JEL Codes: J16; J21; M12
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| Victims of workplace violence (J81) | Declines in employment (J63) |
| Male-female violence (J12) | Victims' declines in employment (J63) |
| Perpetrators of male-female violence (J12) | Negative labor market consequences (F66) |
| Managerial status of perpetrators (M12) | Victims' declines in employment (J63) |
| Managerial status of perpetrators (M12) | Perpetrators' labor market outcomes (J79) |
| Male-female violence (J12) | Reduction in share of female employees (J21) |
| Male-female violence (J12) | Increased separation rates of female employees (J63) |
| Male-female violence (J12) | Decrease in hiring of women (J79) |