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How Do Labour Markets Affect Crime?
06 May 2010
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labour markets affect crime. This literature is characterized by an intriguing puzzle – the large gap between the theory and empirical work. To solve the puzzle, this IZA paper discusses a few very important empirical problems that until the last 10 years have not been systematically addressed. The author concludes that recent research consistently provides evidence to buttress the contention that labour market opportunities have important effects on crime, especially property crime.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp4856.pdf

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