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How and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysia

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dc.contributor.authorTestaverde, Mauro
dc.contributor.authorOzden, Caglar
dc.contributor.authorWagner, Mathis
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-05T19:06:38Z
dc.date.available2019-08-05T19:06:38Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-01
dc.description.abstractThe perception that immigration fuels crime is an important source of anti-immigrant sentiment. Using Malaysian data for 2003-10, this paper provides estimates of the overall impact of economic immigration on crime, and evidence on different socio-economic mechanisms underpinning this relationship. The IV estimates suggest that immigration decreases crime rates, with an elasticity of around −0.97 for property and -1.8 violent crimes. Three-quarters of the negative causal relationship between immigration and property crime rates can be explained by the impact of immigration on the underlying economic environment faced by natives. The reduction in violent crime rates is less readily explained by these factors.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/32171
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/32171
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectIMMIGRATION
dc.subjectCRIME
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.titleHow and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysiaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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okr.crossref.titleHow and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysia
okr.date.disclosure2019-08-01
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-17T02:19:47.869573Z
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhx010
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/32171
okr.journal.nbpages183-202
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryMalaysia
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::International Migration
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Migration and Development
okr.topicSocial Development::Crime and Society
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.volume32(1)
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