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This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...
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Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers hit the headlines when it refused to admit those aboard the Tampa in September 2001. This tough stance and the raft of legislation that followed became known as Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’. It was clearly intended to deter those who might...
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We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important …
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's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …
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to lead a life of crime than those entering a buoyant labour market. Thus crime scars from higher entry level …
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We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets … are endogenously determined. We show that in bigger cities there is relatively more crime, a standard stylized fact of … costs (or a better access to jobs) decreases crime while, in the long run with free mobility, the effect is ambiguous …
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-scale public opinion and crime victimization survey--the first of its kind in India. The results illustrate that two of the reform … interventions, the freeze on transfers and the training, improved police effectiveness and public and crime victims’ satisfaction …
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We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects … criminal from each network that reduces total crime by the largest amount. Using longitudinal data, we are able to compare the … disappeared over time, we show that the theoretical predicted crime reduction is close to what is observed in the real world. We …
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once removed generates the highest reduction in total crime in the network. We generalize the intercentrality measure …
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