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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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The Impact of Resident Status Regulations on Immigrants' Labor Supply: Evidence for France

Jarreau, Joachim - HAL - 2014

Many OECD countries have changed the rules for immigrants in recent decades, generally making harder to enter and to stay. France is one example. This paper studies the immigrants' response to the 2004 reform of the immigration law, which made it harder for foreigners to obtain resident status....

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Immigration Policy and Self-Selecting Migrants

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

We build a simple model of self-selection into migration and immigration policy determination. We first show that the effect of any immigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a composition effect. We then explore how the optimal policy may change once the latter effect is considered.

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On the Move Livelihood Strategies in Northern Ghana

Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2011

The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...

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Determinants of Internal Migration among Senegalese Youth

HERRERA, Catalina; Sahn, David - HAL - 2013

We analyze the socio-economic determinants of youth decision to internally migrate in Senegal. Young people undertake mostly rural-to-rural and urban-to-urban migrations and over half of them are temporary migrants. Using multinomial logit models, we estimate the role of household and community...

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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration

Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - HAL - 2013

We match migration data from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...

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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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