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 …

affect the nature of the immigration inflow can effectively reduce native income losses and dampen adjustment dynamics in … regional labor markets. One such intervention is to distribute the inflow more evenly over time. Smaller immigration inflows …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

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 …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …