, increase crime. …

among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances, increase crime. …

determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county level … the country. The incidence of anti- foreigner crime is higher in the east and rises with distance from the former west … German border. Economic variables like unemployment and wages matter little for the level of crime once location in the east …

determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county level … the country. The incidence of anti- foreigner crime is higher in the east and rises with distance from the former west … German border. Economic variables like unemployment and wages matter little for the level of crime once location in the east …

determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county level … the country. The incidence of anti-foreigner crime is higher in the east and rises with distance from the former West … German border. Economic variables like unemployment and wages matter little for the level of crime once location in the east …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …