Crime and Unemployment in Turbulent Times
We use the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment in Sweden during the 1990s to identify the effect of unemployment on crime. Our findings are as follows: (i) There is a statistically and economically significant effect of general unemployment on the incidence of burglary, auto theft, and drug possession; (ii) we find no evidence for the popular view that youth unemployment matters for crime; (iii) prime-aged unemployment is robustly correlated with main categories of youthful crimes, a finding consistent with the idea that unstable life conditions of parents have adverse spillover effects on the life-choices of their children. (JEL: J00, K4) (c) 2007 by the European Economic Association.
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2007
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Authors: | Öster, Anna ; Agell, Jonas |
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Journal of the European Economic Association. - MIT Press. - Vol. 5.2007, 4, p. 752-775
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MIT Press |
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