Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of unemployment on various types of crime in Greece. Design/methodology/approach – A battery of econometric tests, including Granger causality tests, a variance decomposition analysis, and an impulse response analysis are used to...

Purpose: Social change and modernization theories postulate that as countries grow they gradually move toward a condition of similarity in various spheres exhibiting similar economic and social traits. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a process of convergence in terms of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of unemployment on various types of crime in Greece. Design/methodology/approach – A battery of econometric tests, including Granger causality tests, a variance decomposition analysis, and an impulse response analysis are used to...