Dewey Working Paper Department of Economics a Statistical Analysis of Crime against Foreigners in Unified Germany
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Germany has seen a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new dataset on the number and nature of such crime at the county level based on newspaper reports. We find significant differences in the patterns of violence in the eastern and western parts of the country. The incidence of anti-foreigner crime is higher in the east and rises with distance from the former west German border. Economic variables like unemployment and wages matter little for the level of crime once location in the east is controlled for. We also find no relation with the number of foreigners in a county in the west. These results are hard to reconcile with simple economic models of crime.
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