The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …

This paper addresses objections to immigration on the basis of their skill level—examining the historical results of … United States immigration policy in an effort to support a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to … include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. Not only does an historical …

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining … support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration … immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of a spatial dependence of crime rates at a local level in the … autocorrelation of municipal violent crime rates. However, it also appears that violent crime against property and against persons do … not follow the same spatial behavior. While violent economic crime seems to spread a lot, interpersonal violence is a much …