Are immigrants more likely to commit crimes? Evidence from France

Yu Aoki and Yasuyuki Todo

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 15, 1537-1541

Abstract: Using French data, we find that the share of immigrants in the population has no significant impact on crime rates once immigrants' economic circumstances are controlled for, while finding that unemployed immigrants tend to commit more crimes than unemployed nonimmigrants.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850701578892

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