market outcomes reinforce each other to imply high crime rates among blacks living in cities. This is referred to as the … experience the same labour market and crime outcomes and live together. This is referred to as the non-discriminating equilibrium … of crime is greater. Consequently, if there were no spatial dimension in this economy so that all workers were residing …

, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

We revisit the question of the efficiency of individual decisions to be protected against crime for the cases of both …. A decrease in the global crime payoff is detrimental to a victim if protection is observable, while it is beneficial …

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among … heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and … victims equates the average returns to crime. We borrow from the literature on the economics of conflicts in order to define …

show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that increases … in youth unemployment induce increases in crime. Using the predicted industrial structure to instrument unemployment, we … show that this effect is causal for burglaries, thefts, and drug offences. To combat crime, it appears thus that all …

We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities … move there to purchase cannabis; (ii) enable the Lambeth police to reallocate effort towards other types of crime. We … investigate whether the depenalization policy impacts the level and composition of crime, using administrative records on criminal …

one-third and one-half of the variation in criminal convictions, depending on crime type and gender. Neighborhood … structure contribute more to sibling similarities in crime than parental income and education or neighborhood characteristics …. The lions’ share of the sibling crime correlations, however, are unexplained by these factors. Finally, sibling spacing …