Bell, Brian; Fasani, Francesco; Machin, Stephen - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1278-1290
This paper focuses on empirical connections between crime and immigration, studying two large waves of recent U.K. immigration (the late 1990s/early 2000s asylum seekers and the post-2004 inflow from EU accession countries). The first wave led to a modest but significant rise in property crime,...