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 … violent crimes, however, the effect of the clear-up rate and unemployment are found to be insignificant. …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent …. Unemployment increases the relative attractiveness of large and less violent gangs engaging more in property crime. … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between …

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 …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates …

the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend …This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …