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Legal and illegal markets often coexist. In theory, marginal legalization can either substitute for the remaining parallel market, or complement it via scale effects. I study migrants crossing without prior authorization at the US southwest border, where large-scale unlawful crossing coexists...
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The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the … interpretation of the estimates. There is no evidence that immigrants increase crime. …
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This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening … propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both … first study to document a link between transit migration and crime. …
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relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …
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relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …
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whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … simulations. Our empirical findings show that an increase in immigration does not affect crime victimization, but it is associated …' unfavourable attitude toward immigrants. Our results reveal a misconception of the link between immigration and crime among …
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Does refugee migration cause crime? I address this question drawing on recent refugee migration to Germany during the … years 2010 to 2015. Based on administrative data records, I add to the literature by disentangling the direct crime impact … locational restrictions and find no impact on crime except for migrationspecific offenses. For the group of recognized refugees …
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of immigration and assimilation for the long-run evolution of crime and institutions in host countries. … framework based on a predator/prey model of crime, where endogenous migration decisions and career choices (between licit and … illicit activities) are jointly determined. In this setting, we show that the involvement of migrants in crime crucially …
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and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …
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and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …
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