Does globalisation affect crime? theory and evidenceTools Ghosh, Arghya, Robertson, Peter E. and Robitaille, Marie-Claire (2016) Does globalisation affect crime? theory and evidence. The World Economy, 39 (10). pp. 1482-1513. ISSN 0378-5920 Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12422
AbstractGlobalization skeptics argue that trade liberalization has high social costs, including an increase in expropriative behavior such as civil-conflict, coercion of labor and crime. We show that a theoretical relationship between trade and expropriation exists, but the sign differs for developed and developing economies. We verify this empirically using data on crime rates. Specifically we find trade liberalization,as measured by both higher openness and lower import duty rates, tends to increase burglaries and theft in very labor abundant countries. For other countries, however,we find that trade liberalization has either a small negative effect on crime,or no effect, depending on the country’s capital abundance.
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