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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended by Lyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic...
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Immigration and the Informal Labor Market
Bosch, Mariano; Farré, Lídia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment, a...
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Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments
Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the case of the minimum...
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Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach
Deidda, Manuela; Di Liberto, Adriana; Foddi, Marta; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a job and income, b) the outcome of the policy...
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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
Akerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social …
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182
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Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
changes in troop levels on violent crime in El Paso County, where Fort Carson is located. Our results suggest that never … relationship between the number of previously deployed units and violent crime are generally small and statistically insignificant …
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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals
Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
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Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
Bignon, Vincent; Caroli, Eve; Galbiati, Roberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …
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