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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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 …

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …

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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

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Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration

Kollo, Janos; Czafit, Bence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...

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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the analyses are performed separately by gender, and...

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Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...

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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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