Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting 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 …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …