We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has …

The paper investigates the effect of local economic conditions on crime. The study focuses on Italy’s local labor … markets and analyzes the short-term response of crime to the severe slump of 2007-2009. It shows that the downturn led to a … crisis was negative. The results also suggest that: i) labor market institutions (i.e. wage supplementary schemes and pro …

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration … evidence of an average causal impact of immigration on crime, nor do we when we consider A8 and Non-A8 immigration separately … causal impact of immigration on crime from our spatial econometric analysis and also present evidence from unique data on …

In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources …, it is essential to ensure that the direction of causation flows from education to crime. Therefore, we identify the … account for the endogeneity of education. In this causal approach, for property crimes, the negative crime …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …