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This paper explores theoretical linkages between poverty traps, economic inequality and delinquency in a perfect competition overlapping generations model characterized by dual legal production sectors and one illegal sector. The model posits an absence of credit for human capital accumulation,...
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This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach … to investigate the causality and plausibility of this link. Firstly, we regress crime against envisaged explanatory … variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty to crime. Secondly, data is analysed using an ARDL ECM. The quarterly …
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The purpose of this research is to examine the contribution of unemployment to income inequality and poverty in various … across OECD countries are revealed through the use of within-household unemployment distributions. These differences help to … explain most of the observed divergences in the relationship between unemployment and income distribution, in conjunction with …
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Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
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. High crime, low levels of educational attainment, long spells of unemployment, and poverty are correlated across them …Numerous studies document that criminal activity is positively related to unemployment and negatively related to … which agents choose between formal employment and pursuing crime-related activities (theft). Prior to their "occupational …
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-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …
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