Regional Market Income Inequality and its Impact on Crime in Germany: A Spatial Panel Data Approach with Local Spillovers
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crime; inequality; spatial fixed effects; local spillovers;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J39 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Other
- K14 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Criminal Law
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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