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Time preferences and criminal behavior
Åkerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2014
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355861
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Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets
Corella, Luis Felipe Munguia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/7, pp. 1-28
Over the last 30 years, researchers have disputed the mixed evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony models to explain their results. However, very few of...
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Short-time work extensions
Brinkmann, Christina; Jäger, Simon; Kuhn, Moritz; … - 2024
Governments use short-time work (STW) schemes to subsidize job preservation during crises. We study the take-up of STW and its effects on worker outcomes and firm behavior using German administrative data from 2009 to 2021. Establishments utilizing STW tend to have higher wages, be larger, and...
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Criminal victims, victimized criminals, or both? : a deeper look at the victim-offender overlap
Entorf, Horst - 2013
offenders. The overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201262
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Criminal discount factors and deterrence
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2016
The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453421
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On the design of criminal trials : the benefits of a three-verdict system
Siegel, Ron; Strulovici, Bruno - 2015 - Preliminary and incomplete
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Third-Party Policing Approaches against Organized Crime : an Evaluation of the Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances
Hoshino, Tetsuya - 2020
responsibility for crime control and prevention. The Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances (YEOs) of Japan aim to combat organized crime … crime. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of the YEOs' effect suggests the effectiveness of enforcement policies that … intensively target regions with lower concentration of organized crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855219
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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
Akerlund, David - 2014
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime … discount future events when balancing the immediate utility of the crime and the costs of a potential future punishment. If … various crime indicators from administrative registers spanning over 18 years. Our results show that high discount rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053536
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Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2016
The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an … heterogeneity based on age, education, crime type, and nationality. Our estimates imply that the majority of deterrence is derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997433
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Optimal Law Enforcement Under Asymmetric Information
Jellal, Mohamed; Garoupa, Nuno - 2000
asymmetry of information between government and enforcers and the crime rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173800