How and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysia
How and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysia
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移民如何以及为何影响犯罪？
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2018
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M. Wagner
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C. Ozden;Mauro Testaverde;M. Wagner
认为移民助长犯罪的看法是反移民情绪的一个重要来源。本文使用马来西亚2003- 2010年的数据，提供了经济移民对犯罪的总体影响的估计，以及支持这种关系的不同社会经济机制的证据。IV的估计表明，移民降低了犯罪率，财产犯罪的弹性约为- 0.97，暴力犯罪的弹性约为-1.8。移民与财产犯罪率之间的负因果关系中，有四分之三可以用移民对当地人面临的潜在经济环境的影响来解释。暴力犯罪率的下降不太容易用这些因素来解释。
The 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.