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Labor Markets, Poverty and Crime

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  • Hiroya Kawashima

    (Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University)

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This paper empirically analyzes the impact of labor market conditions and poverty on crime using the prefectural panel data for each five years from 1980 to 2000. When estimating these relations, it is often the case that endogeneity causes biased estimator. Therefore panel data and Instrumental Variable method are used to consider endogeneity. The results indicate that labor market conditions do not have significant impact on crime rate; however, increase in poverty rate leads to higher crime rate.

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  • Hiroya Kawashima, 2012. "Labor Markets, Poverty and Crime," OSIPP Discussion Paper 12J007, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.
    • Handle: RePEc:osp:wpaper:12j007
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    1. Fumio Ohtake & M. Kohara & N. Okuyama & K. Yamada, 2013. "GINI Country Report: Growing Inequalities and their Impacts in Japan," GINI Country Reports japan, AIAS, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies.

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    crime; labor markets; poverty; police; empirical analysis;
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