Firm Environment and Employee’s Crime Rate: Evidence From Denmark

Martin J.  Conyon; Juyeong Jeong; Hans Kleven; Steen Thomsen

doi:10.1080/13504851.2025.2458091

Firm Environment and Employee’s Crime Rate: Evidence From Denmark

Martin J. Conyon^*, Juyeong Jeong, Hans Kleven, Steen Thomsen

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Bentley University

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Abstract

We study the effect of the firm’s crime environment on individual crime rates. Using Danish registry data, we show the effects of individuals moving between high-crime (HC) and low-crime (LC) environments. We use a difference-in-difference estimator and mass layoffs to identify (statistically) causal effects. Individuals moving from high to low-crime firms experience a small but statistically significant decrease in crime rates. Analogously, individuals moving from low to high-crime firms experience a low but statistically significant increase in crime rates.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1350-4851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2025.2458091
Publication status	Published - 29 Jan 2025

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Epub ahead of print. Published online: 29 January 2025.

Keywords

Firm crime environment
Employee behaviour
Difference-in-differences

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