used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

about the relationship between search costs and labor market outcomes. The final essay, “The Impact of Mexican Immigration … effect of immigration on U.S. labor market outcomes using a novel source of exogenous variation in migrant inflows. Rainfall …

in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at … macroeconomic and immigration policy setting of Cohort 2. Although the advantage derived from the Cohort 2 setting is not itself …

from the immigration boom in Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by … immigration if natives' and immigrants' labor supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that … not been largely offset by immigration …