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Prison conditions and recidivism
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2008
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...
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Arbeitgeberverhalten in der Wirtschaftskrise: Ergebnisse empirischer Studien in den Monaten April und November 2009
Martin, Albert - 2010
Optimismus beobachten. Auf das Betriebsklima wirkt sich die Wirtschaftskrise negativ aus, und nicht wenige Arbeitnehmer fürchten …
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Die wirtschaftliche Krisenlage in der Beurteilung der Arbeitnehmer: Ergebnisse einer Online-Befragung
Martin, Albert - 2009
Die Ergebnisse über die wir im Folgenden berichten, wurden im Rahmen einer Studie über die Wettbewerbssituation der Arbeitnehmer ermittelt, die im April 2009 durchgeführt wurde. In dem hier vorliegenden Kurzbericht befassen wir uns mit der etwas spezielleren Frage, wie die Arbeitnehmer die...
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Using behavioral economic experiments at a large motor carrier: the context and design of the truckers and turnover project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2007
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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Monitoring and norms in sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a natural experiment
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Vikström, Johan - 2008
We test if social work norms are important for work absence due to self-perceived sick-ness. To this end, we use a randomized social experiment designed to estimate the effect of monitoring on work absence. The treated were exposed to less monitoring of their eligibility to use sickness...
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
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Development and validation of scientific indicators of the relationship between criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300900
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Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income
Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2005
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
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Social Interactions and Crime revisited: An Investigation using Individual Offender Data in Dutch Neighborhoods
Bernasco, Wim; de Graaff, Thomas; Rouwendal, Jan; … - 2012
,007 neighborhoods in the Netherlands, this article tests whether an individual's decision whether or not to be involved in crime is … of this decision, a small positive effect is found on violent crime, but not on property crime. The results suggest that … involved in crime. …
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Nonresponse in aktuellen deutschen Viktimisierungssurveys
Klingwort, Jonas - 2017
Victimization surveys are necessary to estimate crime rates and fear of crime for the general population of a certain … statistics. Only the combination of both data sources allows to quantify crime rates and fear of crime. Therefore, a periodically … victimization survey of the general German population would be valuable for the evaluation and prevention of crime. The present work …
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