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 …

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. …

crime in New Zealand. The data cover sixteen regions over the period 1984 to 1996. Random and fixed effects models are used … to investigate the possibility of a causal relationship between unemployment and crime. Hypothesis tests show that the … that unemployment cannot explain changes in the overall crime rate, although significant effects on crime are found for …