Crime and income inequality: the case of Malaysia

This paper examines the causality between income inequality and crime in Malaysia for the period 1973-2003. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze the impact of income inequality on various categories of criminal activities as well as to (2) analyze...

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Main Authors: Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17100/1/17100.pdf