Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...

Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and labour market outcomes from the Netherlands to overcome data restrictions previously met in the literature and estimate event-study designs to...

Little is known about the costs of crime to victims. We use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and monthly labour market outcomes from the Netherlands and estimate event-study designs to assess short- and long-term effects of criminal victimisation. Across offences, both males...

Mit den Gewalttaten von Aschaffenburg, Magdeburg, Solingen und München sind innere Sicherheit, Kriminalitätsbekämpfung und Prävention ins Zentrum des Wahlkampfs gerückt. Die Debatten wie zuletzt im Deutschen Bundestag verlaufen intensiv und emotional. Der Diskurs ist eng verzahnt mit Fragen...