RT Article
T1 Unemployment and property crime: evidence from Croatia
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 73
IS 3
SP 357
OP 376
A1 Recher, Vedran
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/182820806X
AB This paper studies the effect of unemployment on property crime in Croatia. The workhorse model of economics of crime is estimated on yearly panel data at the county level over the period 1998-2016. The results show that unemployment has a significant and positive effect on burglaries. The estimated elasticity is higher for female unemployment. The main effect of unemployment comes from lower crime quantiles for female unemployment, and from higher crime quantiles for male unemployment. The police force has the strongest negative effect on crime in areas with the highest crime rates. The typical identifying variation in unemployment is used to interpret the economic significance of the estimated effect. For a typical increase in unemployment, the number of burglaries is estimated to increase by 3.3 percent, which translates to over 750,000 euros in reported damages.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 374-376
K1 Burglary
K1 Fixed-effects
K1 panel data
K1 Property Crime
K1 Robbery
K1 Theft
K1 Unemployment
DO 10.1007/s10611-019-09865-2