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New Zealand real interest rates have on average over the past two decades been high relative to most other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This paper argues that New Zealand's relatively high interest rates are currently the outcome of domestic...
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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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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
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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,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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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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assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …
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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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This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...
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The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …
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