This paper adds to the literature on the economic determinants of crime by examining the impact of macro …-economic instability had a significant impact on crime, both homicide and robbery. However, homicide and robbery do not react to …

abilities. Typically, there is more crime in the low ability group and increasing punishment reduces crime, but the opposite may …

salaries, state revenue, incarceration rates, execution rates, pre-tax incomes and inequality, crime rates, suicide rates, and …

This paper investigates the relationship between labour market conditions and crime in Italy accounting for both age … regional data over the period 1993-2002, we study the impact of wages and unemployment on different types of crime. To mitigate … unemployment has a large and positive effect on crime rate in southern regions. Our results are robust to model specification …

variation has affected the crime rate using a panel of Swedish county-level data for the period 1973–2000. We consider various … measures of income inequality to evaluate which part of the distribution that matters most in determining crime rates. Our … below 10 percent of median income on the incidence of property crime. Moreover, the unemployment rate has a positive effect …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …

the characteristics of crime behaviour in Italy. In particular, we test which features of our theoretical model are … crime and education. But in order to study the Italian reality we account for its peculiarities (slowness in reaching a … final judgement, presence of organized crime in Italy, economic dichotomy between the North and the South of Italy). …