Crime and the timing of work
Crime and the timing of work
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DOI：
10.1006/juec.1998.2106
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Hamermesh, DS
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作者：
Hamermesh, DS
两个惊人的事实描述了美国的工作时间：在大都市地区，晚上和夜间工作的倾向较低，自1973年以来，这种工作的长期下降。一种解释是犯罪率较高，可能会增加大面积地区的犯罪率。我把当前人口调查关于工作时间的数据与联邦调查局的犯罪报告联系起来。这两个事实都不能用犯罪率的变化或地区间的差异来解释;但较高的杀人率确实减少了这方面的工作。这一削减隐含着40亿至100亿美元的经济成本。这种负外部性说明了一个更大的类以前无法衡量的社会病态的成本。(C)北京：科学出版社.
Two striking facts describe work timing in the United States: A lower propensity to work evenings and nights in large metropolitan areas, and a secular decline in such work since 1973. One explanation is higher and possibly increasing crime in large areas. I link Current Population Survey data on work timing to FBI crime reports. Neither fact is explained by changes in nor inter-area differences in crime rates; but higher homicide rates do reduce such work. This reduction implicitly costs the economy between $4 and $10 billion. This negative externality illustrates a larger class of previously unmeasured costs of social pathologies. (C) 1999 Academic Press.