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'Providing Advice to Jobseekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice,' Michèle Belot (University of Edinburgh), Philipp Kircher (University of Edinburgh), Paul Muller (University of Gothenburg).
'Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts,' Amy Finkelstein (MIT), Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard) and Mark Shepard (Harvard).

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28 July 2017 Labour Markets, Organisation of Markets Authors: Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)

Opportunity and access: how legal work status affects immigrant crime rates

Immigration policy continues to be a hotly debated issue in many developed countries around the world. A contentious point cited by many policymakers relates to the high crime rates of immigrants relative to the native population. How does work status and legal access to the labor market affect the crime rates of immigrants? This article summarizes recent research from Pinotti (2017) on the Italian immigration system and finds that a lack of legal work opportunities for immigrants contributes to higher rates of immigrant crime.

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