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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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This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians … overestimate the effect of immigration on crime. -- International migration ; effects of immigration ; attitudes towards immigrants …
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Immigration enforcement cooperation between final destination and transit countries has increased in the last decades … explored by the empirical literature. This paper examines whether the Southern Border Plan, an immigration enforcement program …
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This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
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Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime … beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them … to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- International migration ; effects of immigration …
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The effect of marijuana liberalization on crime is object of a large interest by social scientists and policy … argument that, even in a short period of time and with an imperfect substitute, the organized crime's supply of illegal drugs …
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and crime in Germany, a country with very high consumption levels. Using detailed survey data and administrative crime … intensity induce these crimes, implying a drinking-crime elasticity of 0.4 at age 16. …
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In a high-crime environment with many high-income citizens, private security companies which offer protection against … crime can flourish. In this article crime is modelled as a game where richer victims yield a higher return on crime, but … with decreasing returns to crime as more criminals choose crime to supplement their income. Private security providers …
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total crime and four other subcategories: breaking and entering, automobile-related crime, violent crime, and drug …-related crime. The estimates indicate that there is no effect of BRACs on criminal activity surrounding the base. We also confirm … existing findings in the literature on the determinants of crime. -- Armed forces ; BRAC ; deviant behavior ; geographic …
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