We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among … heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and … victims equates the average returns to crime. We borrow from the literature on the economics of conflicts in order to define …

In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …

belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

This study employs state-level panel data to examine the effect of income inequality on crime in the United States …. Using panel cointegration techniques, we find a significant negative effect of inequality on crime. …