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 … with respect to the method of estimation. Whereas conventional mean regressions do not show any significant effect (which …

'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 …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. 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 …

pre-crisis period, are much more likely to lose their jobs and go on unemployment insurance after the crisis. These …

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

global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … sets of dynamic simulations which account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our … labour productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries …

margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect …

This paper analyzes the effects of "shocks" to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the … identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment …