TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krueger,Alan B.
AU  - Pischke,Jorn-Steffen
TI  - A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5485
PY  - 1996
Y2  - March 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5485
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5485.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alan B. Krueger
Industrial Relations Section
Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-4046
Fax: 609/258-2907
E-Mail: akrueger@princeton.edu

Jorn-Steffen Pischke
CEP
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 44-20-7955-6509
Fax: 44-20-7955-7595
E-Mail: s.pischke@lse.ac.uk
AB  - Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s.  To analyze the determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new data set on the number and nature of such crimes at the county level based on newspaper reports. We find significant differences in the patterns of violence in the eastern and western parts of the country.  The incidence of anti- foreigner crime is higher in the east and rises with distance from the former west German border.  Economic variables like unemployment and wages matter little for the level of crime once location in the east is taken into account.  The relative number of foreigners in a country has no relationship with the incidence of ethnic crimes in the west, whereas in the east it has a positive association with the number of crimes per resident and a negative association with the number of crimes per foreign resident.
ER  -