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

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 … crime in particular with respect to drug offenses and fare-dodging. Our analysis further suggests that counties which …

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 … in crime and our analysis further indicates that while at the macro level increased migration was accompanied by …

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of a new mass medium on criminal activity in Germany. The paper asks … the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … effects might stem from indirect effects related to differences in reporting crime, a matching effect, and a direct effect of …

currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … East and West Germany. Our results are based on static and dynamic panel econometrics/criminometrics. They confirm the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs-crime channel within …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … is made to estimate a NAIRU for Germany based on conventional Phillips curves as well as on new approaches such as using …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …