The Determinants of Employee Crime in the UK

Neil Rickman and Robert Witt ()

No 3891, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: For the first time, we present evidence on employee theft in the UK using data on actual recorded crime. We present a model where employees are ‘rational cheaters’ with ‘consciences’ to produce hypotheses about the role of labour market (wages, unemployment) and social (age, education) influences on employee theft. We then examine the role of these influences using regional crime data supplemented by data from the LFS. Our results provide information on two competing views of motivations for crime and on policy to combat employee crime.

Keywords: employee crime; labour markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: Written 2003-05
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