How and Why Does Immigration Affect Crime? Evidence from Malaysia

The perception that immigration fuels crime is an important source of anti-immigrant sentiment. Using Malaysian data for 2003-10, this paper provides estimates of the overall impact of economic immigration on crime, and evidence on different socio-economic mechanisms underpinning this relationship....

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Main Authors: Ozden, Caglar, Testaverde, Mauro, Wagner, Mathis
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32171