Are immigrants more likely to commit crimes?: Evidence from France

Yu Aoki; Yasuyuki Todo

doi:10.1080/13504850701578892

Are immigrants more likely to commit crimes? Evidence from France

Yu Aoki, Yasuyuki Todo

The University of Tokyo

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Abstract

Using French data, we find that the share of immigrants in the population has no significant impact on crime rates once immigrants’ economic circumstances are controlled for, while finding that unemployed immigrants tend to commit more crimes than unemployed nonimmigrants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1537–1541
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	16
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850701578892
Publication status	Published - Sept 2009

Keywords

immigration
crime

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