@article{ref1,
title="Crime and unemployment in turbulent times",
journal="Journal of the European Economic Association",
year="2007",
author="Öster, Anna and Agell, Jonas",
volume="5",
number="4",
pages="752-775",
abstract="We use the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment in Sweden during the 1990s to identify the effect of unemployment on crime. Our findings are as follows: (i) There is a statistically and economically significant effect of general unemployment on the incidence of burglary, auto theft, and drug possession; (ii) we find no evidence for the popular view that youth unemployment matters for crime; (iii) prime-aged unemployment is robustly correlated with main categories of youthful crimes, a finding consistent with the idea that unstable life conditions of parents have adverse spillover effects on the life-choices of their children. (JEL: J00, K4)<p />",
language="",
issn="1542-4766",
doi="10.1162/JEEA.2007.5.4.752",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2007.5.4.752"
}