Unemployment and Crime: New Answers to an Old Question
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Keywords
clearance rate; regional panel data; fixed effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-1999-08-04 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-1999-09-02 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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