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Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment

  • Kenneth Burdett
  • Ricardo Lagos
  • Randall Wright
American Economic Review
vol. 93, no. 5, December 2003
(pp. 1764-1777)
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Citation

Burdett, Kenneth, Ricardo Lagos, and Randall Wright. 2003. "Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment." American Economic Review, 93 (5): 1764-1777. DOI: 10.1257/000282803322655536

JEL Classification

  • D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
  • E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital
  • J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
  • K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law