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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … seekers could have beneficial effects on crime rates. -- Crime ; immigration …
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for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …
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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …
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increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by … that there is no discernible effect on county-level crime rates. These null effects are consistent across all types of …
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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 …
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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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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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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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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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