Explaining Crime in Buenos Aires: The Roles of Inequality, Unemployment, and Structural Change |
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Authors: | David E Hojman |
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Institution: | Department of Economics and Accounting, University of Liverpool |
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Abstract: | Theoretical and empirical ambiguities suggest that it may be wrong to claim that unemployment increases crime, always and everywhere. Multiple regression results for Greater Buenos Aires during 1985–1997 show that inequality helps to explain crime, but unemployment does not. Moreover, unemployment fails to explain inequality. The discussion also raises some governability issues. |
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Keywords: | Crime Inequality Unemployment Governability Neoliberalism Argentina |
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