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 …

Many empirical studies of the economics of crime focus solely on the determinants thereof, and do not consider the … this issue using data covering 21 Swedish counties from 1975 to 2008. The results suggest that the four crime types … that crime should be dependent across both time and counties. …

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 …

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 …

during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect … of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime, burglary, auto-theft and drug possession. A calculation suggests that … programs - general ones and those specifically targeted to the young - help to reduce crime. …