Crime and labour market turnover

Robert Baumann () and Bryan Engelhardt

No 1610, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: We go beyond unemployment to investigate how its determinants, specifically hires, lay-offs and quits, affect crime. As expected, we find less crime in localities with higher hiring and quit rates and lower lay-off rates. The size of relationships is on the order of studies analysing the link between unemployment and crime.

Keywords: Hires; lay-offs; quits; separations; wages; unemployment; property crime; incarceration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J0 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 3 pages
Date: 2016-12
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Published in Applied Economics Letters, Volume 23, Number 7, 2016, Pages 536-538

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