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Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
- Abstract:
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This paper focuses on empirical connections between crime and immigration, studying two large waves of recent U.K. immigration (the late 1990s/early 2000s asylum seekers and the post-2004 inflow from EU accession countries). The first wave led to a modest but significant rise in property crime, while the second wave had a small negative impact. There was no effect on violent crime; arrest rates were not different, and changes in crime cannot be ascribed to crimes against immigrants. The findi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Economic and Social Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Review of Economics and Statistics Journal website
- Volume:
- 95
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1278-1290
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-30
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1530-9142
- ISSN:
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0034-6535
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:453422
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uuid:8bc4b47c-5e4c-422b-b7a9-7edbfec2bc15
- Local pid:
- pubs:453422
- Source identifiers:
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453422
- Deposit date:
- 2016-01-28
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- Copyright holder:
- President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press in association with Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press at: [10.1162/REST_a_00337]
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