local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

We examine the crime-unemployment relationship in 26 EU countries and the possibility of potential asymmetries … when active labour market policies are used to tackle unemployment. To avoid being misled about the effectiveness of crime … fighting policy where a strong link between unemployment and crime cannot be found, policymakers should recognise and further …

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important … theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in … markets reduce crime seems obvious and is widely accepted by many policy makers and academics, empirical results fail to show …

, whereas active labour market policy appears not to be linked to crime. The combination of a shorter benefit duration and … higher replacement rate, like in the Nordic countries, seems to be a "crime reducing" combination. -- Unemployment ; labour …

prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime …

This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French … economics of crime literature is then twofold. First, I show that neighborhood characteristics are important determinants of … crime victimization. In particular, local unemployment rate is found to be one of the most important factor explaining …