Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
研究了英国两次大规模移民浪潮（1990年代末/2000年代初的寻求庇护者及2004年后欧盟新成员国移民）对犯罪的影响，发现第一波移民小幅增加了财产犯罪，第二波则略有减少，对暴力犯罪无影响。
Abstract This paper focuses on empirical connections between crime and immigration, studying two large waves of recent U.K. immigration (the late 1990s/early 2000s asylum seekers and the post-2004 inflow from EU accession countries). The first wave led to a modest but significant rise in property crime, while the second wave had a small negative impact. There was no effect on violent crime; arrest rates were not different, and changes in crime cannot be ascribed to crimes against immigrants. The findings are consistent with the notion that differences in labor market opportunities of different migrant groups shape their potential impact on crime.