This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We …

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on crime, exploiting unique individual-level data on … offsets potential crime increases upon job loss, but this effect completely vanishes immediately after benefit expiration. Our …

We estimate the effect of immigrant legalization on the crime rate of immigrants in Italy by exploiting an ideal … exhausted. Matching data on applications with individual- level criminal records, we show that legalization reduces the crime … rate of legalized immigrants by 0.6 percentage points on average, on a baseline crime rate of 1.1 percent. …

This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in … immigration. As an illustration, the estimates indicate that the number of individuals in the average European country in 2012 who … were against all immigration from poorer countries or of foreign ethnicities was 40% higher than it would have been if …