Internal migration and crime in Brazil

Eva-Maria Egger

No wp-2019-112, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants. In this paper, I provide the first evidence of the effect of internal migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões . Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing sector as an instrument for migratory flows, I find that a 10 per cent increase in the in-migration rate translates into a 6 per cent increase in the homicide rate in destinations.

Keywords: Brazil; Crime; Internal migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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