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relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …
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whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations. Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated …' unfavourable attitude toward immigrants. Our results reveal a misconception of the link between immigration and crime among …
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of immigration and assimilation for the long-run evolution of crime and institutions in host countries. … framework based on a predator/prey model of crime, where endogenous migration decisions and career choices (between licit and … illicit activities) are jointly determined. In this setting, we show that the involvement of migrants in crime crucially …
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whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations. Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated …' unfavourable attitude toward immigrants. Our results reveal a misconception of the link between immigration and crime among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078406
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...
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A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region....
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Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822265
of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …
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