Mesters, Geert; Geest, Victor van der; Bijleveld, Catrien - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We test economic and sociological theories for the relationship between employment and crime, where social welfare is … heterogeneity. We find significant negative bi-directional structural effects between employment and property crime. Robustness … highlight the importance of economic incentives for explaining the relationship between employment and crime for disadvantaged …