Austerity, welfare cuts and hate crime: Evidence from the UK's age of austerity
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From 2010 the UK entered an ‘age of austerity’, with major cuts to welfare payments. We study link between these and increases in hate crimes. Using a panel 313 Community Safety Partnerships areas England Wales, we show that for each £100 loss per working age adult, racially or religiously motivated crimes rose by approximately 5-6% 2013/14 2014/15. These effects are large given mean £450 adult survive multiple robustness checks. individual data, find no evidence driven increased anger benefit recipients se but decline community cohesion.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Urban Economics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0094-1190', '1095-9068']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2022.103439