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The determinants of recidivism among ex-prisoners: a survival analysis on French data

Monnery, Benjamin - HAL - 2013

This article explores the main determinants of the hazard of recidivism among ex-prisoners. We use a nationally-representative sample of prisoners released in 1996-1997 in France, drawn from a 5-year follow-up survey run by the French correctional administration. We estimate semiparametric...

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Taxicab regulation and urban residents' use and perception of taxi services: a survey in eight cities

Darbéra, Richard - HAL - 2010

1. Several market failures would justify some forms of price control and entry regulation in the taxicab industry. Unfortunately, history shows that very often the taxi regulators get captured by taxi operators' lobbies and fail to adapt their regulation to changing market conditions. Hence,...

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Participation, Recruitment Selection, and the Minimum Wage

Gavrel, Frédéric - HAL - 2014

This paper reexamines the efficiency of participation with heterogeneous workers in a search-matching model with bargained wages and free entry. Assuming that firms hire their best applicants, we state that participation is insufficient whatever workers' bargaining strengths. The reason for this...

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Participation, Recruitment Selection, and the Minimum Wage

Gavrel, Frederic - HAL - 2014

This paper reexamines the e ciency of participation with heterogeneous workers in a search-matching model with bargained wages and free entry. As- suming that rms hire their best applicants, we state that participation is insu cient whatever workers' bargaining strengths. The reason for this is...

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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony justify the Minimum Wage?

Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - HAL - 2009

Does monopsony on the labor market in itself justify the implementation of a minimum wage when it would not be used in a competitive economy? This issue is studied in a model of optimal taxation. We adopt a definition most favorable to the minimum wage: the minimum wage is useful whenever it can...

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Do Immigrants Cause Crime?

Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - HAL - 2012

We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables based on … other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the overall …

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Do immigrants cause crime?

Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - HAL - 2008

In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables … unaffected all other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the …

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Stealing to Survive: Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France

Bignon, Vincent; Caroli, Eve; Galbiati, Roberto - HAL - 2011

We wish to thank Andrea Bassanini, Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa, Tommy Murphy, Tommaso Nannicini and seminar participants at University Bocconi for useful comments and discussions. Charlotte Coutand and Clement Malgouyres provided excellent research assistance. We also thank Pierre-Emmanuel Couralet...

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Social status and crime

Arbak, Emrah - HAL - 2005

abilities. Typically, there is more crime in the low ability group and increasing punishment reduces crime, but the opposite may …

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Education, police et criminalité : une étude de cas du Minas Gerais à l'aide d'un modèle d'équilibre général calculable

Puech, Frédéric - HAL - 2011

the fight against violent crime. The study uses a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) built upon the economy of … Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state. Main results suggest a comparable reducing effect of both type of expenditures on crime …

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