I investigate the impact of unemployment on crime using a country-level panel data set from Europe that contains … consistently-measured crime statistics. Unemployment has a positive influence on property crimes. Using earthquakes, industrial …

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary … with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions … accompanying omitted variables bias to estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime. Using a state-level panel for the period …

and demographic characteristics influence on people’s motivation to crime commitment of theft. Results from estimation of … crime models demonstrated that there is a significant and positive relationship between unemployment rate and theft in Iran …

I investigate the impact of unemployment on crime using a country-level panel data set from Europe that contains … consistently measured crime statistics. Unemployment has a positive influence on property crimes. Using earthquakes, industrial …

We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market …

This paper quantitatively assesses the interaction between permanent immigration into France and France's macroeconomic … performance as seen through its GDP per capita and its unemployment rate. It takes advantage of a new database where immigration … that immigration flow significantly responds to France's macroeconomic performance: positively to the country's GDP per …

We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill … although immigration raises the overall welfare,it may have distributional effects. Specifically, skilled workers gain in terms …