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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2094437
Does more immigration lead to more violent and property crimes? A case study of 30 selected OECD countries
Muhammad Tufail
Lin Song
Sher Ali
Salman Wahab
Taimoor Hassan
Sažetak
In many developed countries around the world, the connection
between immigration and crime has been a subject of discussion.
The indigenous populations of the most advanced nations usually
held the opinion that immigration fuels delinquency. Therefore,
this paper provides an empirical connection between immigration
and crime in the period 1988-2018 across 30 OECD countries. For
empirical analysis, advanced panel econometric approaches are
used which can address both heterogonous coefficients and
cross-section dependency. The findings show that no statistical
evidence exists to relate an increase in the number of immigrants
to the rise of any kind of crime. If there is we found a significant
negative association between immigrants and only one of the six
kinds of crime studied. Moreover, an increase in foreign prisoners
(FP) reduces all kinds of crimes. While an increase in the real
gross domestic product (RGDP) only increases property crimes.
The increase in M25–29 only increases serious assault (SA) out of
six crime types analysed.
Ključne riječi
Violent crimes; property crimes; immigration; OECD countries; CS-ARDL
Hrčak ID:
304196
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2023.
Posjeta: 745 *