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currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … East and West Germany. Our results are based on static and dynamic panel econometrics/criminometrics. They confirm the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …
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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 …
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by using other types of financing. The analysis is based on a unique matched data set for Germany that contains firm …
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We draw on two decades of historical data to analyze how regional labor markets in West Germany adjusted to one of the … model of unemployment, which is exposed to the asymmetric expellee inflow, closely fits historical data on the regional … unemployment differential and the regional migration rate. Both variables increase dramatically after the inflow and decline only …
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Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...
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1996. I do not find any effects of unemployment duration on the transition from unemployment to selfemployment. Moreover …
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