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terrorism or engage in criminal behavior has served as fuel for the Trump Administration’s position in 2017. Is there any basis … ascertain if there is a link between refugee settlements and local crime rates or terrorist events in the United States. We fail …
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Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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spike up in Islamophobic hate crimes and incidents when an attack occurs. In subsequent days, hate crime is amplified by … real-time media. It subsequently attenuates, but hate crime incidence cumulates to higher levels than prior to the series … take place, local Muslim populations face a media magnified likelihood of hate crime victimization following international …
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This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
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This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. -- corruption ; shadow economy …
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The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute to … corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow economy …
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"Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more … are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and organized crime organizations, their sources and … developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat the financing of terrorism. -- Financial flows of terrorist … organizations ; Hawala banking ; money laundering ; organized crime ; kinds of terrorist financing …
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the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …. This paper studies the roles of prices, policing and policy in explaining these crime dynamics. The empirical analysis … shows sizeable and significant metal crime-price elasticities, in line with the idea that changing economic returns do shape …
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