The impact of immigrants on host country crime

Tiantian Dai, Xiangbo Liu and Biancen Xie

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 119, issue 2, 157-161

Abstract: It is conventionally believed that immigration increases crime rates in the host country. However, empirical results are not in line with this crime concern. We develop a model with endogenous skill upgrading and criminal choices to reconcile the inconsistency.

Keywords: Immigration; Crime; Skill-upgrading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.02.007

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