Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the … spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental … variables. Our results indicate that crime rates were not affected during the year of refugee arrival, but there was an increase …

-born inhabitants that face large-scale immigration of asylum seekers witness the strongest upsurge in hate crime. Economically deprived …In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in … effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share of the foreign-born population on anti-foreigner hate crime. Our …

This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …

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 …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … Becker-Ehrlich model of crime supply. We analyse three different channels from drug abuse to crime: system-related, economic …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …