Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic … find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle, with unemployment leading to higher crime rates and crime rates … raising unemployment. I further find that especially employment in low-skill service jobs is adversely affected by crime, that …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … with respect to the method of estimation. Whereas conventional mean regressions do not show any significant effect (which …

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating effect of unemployment … benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates suggest that unemployment …

puzzle: crime is expected to rise, not fall, when unemployment rises. Using a novel identification strategy, I show that … unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions can account for part of the puzzle, explaining why crime did not rise. The higher … extension rules in the length of benefits to identify the impact of unemployment benefits on crime. I estimate that in places …

The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in … on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a ten percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s lowered property … crime by roughly 1.5 percent. By limiting the amount of free time for relief recipients, work relief was more effective than …

The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in … at the roots of crime" by providing subsistence income to needy families. After constructing a panel data set for 81 … on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a ten percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s lowered property …