Mocan, Naci; Unel, Bulent - 2011
NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime … instruments for unskilled workers' earnings in crime regressions. Regressions that employ state panels reveal that technology …-induced variations in unskilled workers' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on …