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Socially optimal crime and punishment
Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2022
This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … form estimates or traditional partial equilibrium, static models of crime. Equilibrium effects can be particularly relevant …
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Do Greater Sanctions Deter Youth Crime? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Lovett, Nicholas - 2018
severity imposed upon adolescents at age 18 deters violent crime by 10-12%. Results are robust to multiple techniques and … specifications. Using these results, we estimate an elasticity of crime with respect to sanction intensity that ranges from -0.145 to …
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Employer sanctions, and the welfare of native workers
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012
We investigate the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native workers. Our analysis is based on the premise that in response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from supervision of production to verification of the legality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309224
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow: Evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311020
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Employer sanctions, and the welfare of native workers
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012
We investigate the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native workers. Our analysis is based on the premise that in response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from supervision of production to verification of the legality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009547497
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670947
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012 - September 2012
Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy with a tightened monitoring and sanction regime. In our analysis, we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the labor force....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611764
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012 - October 20, 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684303
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Partnership Penalties and Bonuses Created by UK Welfare Programs
Anderberg, Dan - 2010
This article explores how the UK welfare benefit system subsidise or penalise couples for living together as partners. A couple is said to face a “partnership bonus” (“penalty”) if they can receive more (less) benefits when living as partners than when living separately. Using data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152842
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Employer sanctions : a policy with a pitfall?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021
This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm’s labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586111