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is consistent with these results. -- Immigration ; Crime ; Legal Status …
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We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand (SID) frame. Drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian courts of justice between 2000 and 2007, we first document that the number of lawyers is positively...
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impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, this kind of anti-crime measure might also induce …
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Organized crime reinforces its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that …
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This paper analyses the effect of local crime rates on the mental well-being of residents. Our identification strategy … addresses the problem of sorting, and endogenous moving behaviour. We find that crime causes considerable mental distress of … residents, and that these effects are mainly driven by property crime. However, individuals react also to violent crime, in …
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This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
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showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime … centrality. -- Crime ; Bonacich Centrality ; Dynamic Network Formation ; Crime Policies …
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effects on future performance in the labor market. -- Military Service ; Violent behavior ; Crime …
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