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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023

, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a …

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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence

Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004

Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in many of these countries it is forbidden by law. In this paper we develop a politicaleconomic...

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When the union hurts the workers : a positive analysis of immigration policy

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti - 2005

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade union has monopoly power over wages. The presence of the union leads a benevolent government to implement a high level of immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an...

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Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004

This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....

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Trade and development in a labor surplus economy

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - 2005

This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...

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A simple model of brain circulation

Schmitt, Nicolas; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2005

This paper considers the allocation of two types of individuals differentiated by levels of talent within and between two countries when they choose to be workers or entrepreneurs. The equilibrium with international migrations requires both countries to be sufficiently different in talent...

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Subsidies for wages and infrastructure: how to restrain undesired immigration

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2006

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...

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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...

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Migrating football players, transfer fees and migration controls

Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007

Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving to another club have become suspect as they are considered as an obstacle to the free movement of workers. However, in an unrestricted market free migration from football...

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