In this paper I analyze the relationship between unemployment and criminal activity. Using a unique panel data set on … German counties covering the years 2003 to 2009, I estimate the effect of unemployment on crime rates for different kind of … effects. To circumvent the endogeneity of the unemployment rate in the structural equation of interest I interact two sources …

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

exit hazard from unemployment, and to a 2.5 percent decrease in the drop out hazard. It is also associated with a 0.5 EUR …

In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …