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among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances, increase crime. …
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to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
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In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using …
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increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by … that there is no discernible effect on county-level crime rates. These null effects are consistent across all types of …
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. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …
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This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model … role for all crimes, especially for petty crimes. This suggests that, for juvenile crime, an effective policy should not … only be measured by the possible crime reduction it implies but also by the group interactions it engenders. -- Social …
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Tax evasion has existed historically. The present study lists rationalizations for tax evasion in a survey consisting of 18 questions. This survey has been used in the past including a survey of business students in China by McGee, Yoon and Li (2015). The present study surveys Chinese business...
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This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
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