authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

subjects' status concerns can result in multiple-equilibrium crime rates and may modify the standard comparative …-statics results regarding how the crime rate changes in response to a higher detection probability and higher sanctions. In addition … theories of crime, namely strain theory. …

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which … is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several …

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …

inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries’ comparative …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …