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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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equilibrium model is developed, exploiting these facts to quantitatively assess the race crime gap, that is the difference in … crime explained by the difference in observables. The model is calibrated relying on US data and solved numerically. The … model captures well relevant dimensions of the crime phenomenon, such as the inmates composition by race, employment status …
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the 1930s and the 2000s, unemployment increased sharply, but crime and the severity of punishment, instead of rising … parole and on probation. Is this an anomaly, or does the 'free market' require massive state punishment? Why did the …
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parole and on probation. Is this an anomaly, or does the 'free market' require massive state punishment? Why did the …
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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 … by an intriguing puzzle - the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor …
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This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268186
Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards activation policy by tightening their monitoring and sanction regime. In our study we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the...
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Arbeitslosengeld-II-Bezieher, die ohne wichtigen Grund nicht mit den Jobcentern kooperieren oder sich nicht hinreichend darum bemühen, eine Erwerbsarbeit oder Ausbildung aufzunehmen, müssen mit Sanktionen als Kürzungen ihrer Arbeitslosengeld- II-Leistungen für eine Dauer von drei Monaten...
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This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of … identified. Our empirical results tend to confirm the general contextual sociological theory of right-wing radicalization by … unemployment/crime - right-winger nexus. Moreover, crime does not seem to have a strong significant effect on right-wing populist …
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