Crime and labour market opportunities in Italy (1993-2002)

No 504, Working Papers (-2012) from University of Bergamo, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between labour market conditions and crime in Italy accounting for both age and gender in unemployment measure and considering regional disparities between North-Centre and South of Italy. Using regional data over the period 1993-2002, we study the impact of wages and unemployment on different types of crime. To mitigate omitted-variables bias we control extensively for demographic and socioeconomic variables. Empirical results suggest that unemployment has a large and positive effect on crime rate in southern regions. Our results are robust to model specification, endogeneity, changes in the classification of crimes and finally, to alternative definitions of unemployment.

Keywords: Crime; Unemployment; Panel Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J00 K40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2005-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-hrm, nep-law and nep-ure
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Published in Labour, December 2006, pages 601-624

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