Reevaluating the effect of recent immigration on crime: estimating the impact of change in discrete migration flows to the United Kingdom following EU accession

The United Kingdom experienced a rapid inflow of migrants from European Union accession countries between 2004 and 2011, many of whom participated in the Worker Registration Scheme (WRS). Given the relative labor market position of this recent migrant wave, scholars argued that returns to criminal a...

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Main Author: Stansfield, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: Crime & delinquency
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