Download or read book Social Mobility, Inequality of Opportunities and Delinquent Activities written by Carlos Nuñez and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work develops a model of endogenous criminal activities to study the effects of inequality of opportunities and social mobility on the crime level. In particular, a general equilibrium model derived from the economic theory of conflict is proposed, in which a group of heterogeneous agents choose the allocation of resources between productive and predatory activities. The starting point is the framework by Grossman (1998) and Grossman & Kim (2002a), which offers a microeconomic background for the aggregate behavior of delinquency. One of the main results is that the relationship between inequality of opportunities, social mobility and delinquent activities is non-monotonic and depends on the existing conditions of criminality in a given society. (Este trabajo desarrolla un modelo en donde se endogenizan las actividades criminales para estudiar los efectos de la desigualdad de oportunidades y la movilidad social sobre la incidencia de dichas actividades. En particular, se plantea un modelo de equilibrio general derivado de la teoría económica del crimen, en donde un grupo de agentes heterogéneos decide la asignación de recursos entre actividades productivas y actividades de apropiación ilegal de la riqueza. El punto de partida son los modelos de Grossman (1998) y Grossman & Kim (2002a), que presentan una micro-fundamentación para comportamiento agregado de las actividades delictivas. Uno de los resultados principales es que la relación entre desigualdad de oportunidades, movilidad social y actividades delictivas no es monotónica y depende de las condiciones de criminalidad existentes en la sociedad.).