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Explaining Crime in Buenos Aires: The Roles of Inequality, Unemployment, and Structural Change
Author(s) -
Hojman David E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/1470-9856.00035
Subject(s) - unemployment , inequality , economics , economic inequality , demographic economics , labour economics , macroeconomics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Theoretical and empirical ambiguities suggest that it may be wrong to claim that unemployment increases crime, always and everywhere. Multiple regression results for Greater Buenos Aires during 1985–1997 show that inequality helps to explain crime, but unemployment does not. Moreover, unemployment fails to explain inequality. The discussion also raises some governability issues.