Crime and Local Labor Market Opportunities for Low‐Skilled Workers: Evidence Using Japanese Prefectural Panel Data
Crime and Local Labor Market Opportunities for Low‐Skilled Workers: Evidence Using Japanese Prefectural Panel Data
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低技能工人的犯罪和当地劳动力市场机会：使用日本县面板数据的证据
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10.1111/j.1468-0106.2011.00565.x
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2011
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Koyo Miyoshi
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Koyo Miyoshi
本文考察了日本犯罪与劳动力市场机会之间的联系。为了考虑这种联系，我们首先使用日本县的面板数据来估计Becker引入的犯罪供给函数。主要实证结果如下：首先，我们预计增加警察数量将减少犯罪，无论其类型（即无论是指总犯罪、暴力犯罪还是盗窃）。其次，在低技能的人更容易找到工作的地方，犯罪率通常较低。第三，低技能工人的工资对犯罪（尤其是盗窃）的影响是显著负的，而一个县的平均工资似乎对犯罪没有影响。第四，教育水平较低的县预计会比其他县遭受更多的犯罪。最后，受教育年限基尼系数较高的县预计也会比其他县遭受更多的犯罪。
This paper examines the link between crime and labor market opportunities in Japan. To consider this link, we estimate the crime supply function first introduced by Becker using panel data for Japanese prefectures. The main empirical results are as follows. First, we expect that increasing the number of police will reduce crime, regardless of its type (i.e. whether referring to total crime, violent crime or larceny). Second, crime rates are generally lower in prefectures where a low-skilled individual can find a job more easily. Third, the effects of wages for low-skilled workers on crime, especially larceny, are significantly negative, whereas average wages in a prefecture do not appear to affect crime. Fourth, the prefectures with lower educational standards are expected to suffer more crime than other prefectures. Finally, prefectures with higher Gini coefficients on schooling years are also expected to suffer more crime than other prefectures.