Labor Market Condition and Crime: Evidence from Zhejiang Panel

摘要：

Surging crime rates has long been recognized as an important social economic issue in transitional China. Following the framework pioneered by Ehrlich (1973)41, we employed a panel dataset from Zhejiang province to investigate the empirical relationship between labor market condition and crime. We found that increasing average wage in urban sector will discourage crime participation, while widening income inequality between rural and urban area significantly leads to more crimes. Our estimate remains robust for various model specifications and taking controls for both year and county fixed effects, which provides some hints for further public policies regarding coordinating the development of both rural and urban areas.

关键词： Labor market condition Crime Fixed effect model

作者: CHEN Chun-liang

作者单位: School of Public Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, 310035

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)

会议地点: 澳大利亚堪培拉

会议语种:英文

页码: 820-826

在线出版日期: 2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）