Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior
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Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior*
There is little consensus on the effects of immigration on crime. One potential explanation for the conflicting evidence is heterogeneity across space and time in policies toward immigrants that affect their status in the community and their incentives to engage in illegal activity. In this paper, we take advantage of provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which gr...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20150165