between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … importance of the relationship are conditional on the crime rate: The partial effect is significantly positive for moderately low …

suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …

. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … increases in crime in particular with respect to drug offenses and fare-dodging. Our analysis further suggests that counties …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …

This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of … unemployment/crime - right-winger nexus. Moreover, crime does not seem to have a strong significant effect on right-wing populist …

prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

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 …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …