The film follows Halim, a Middle Eastern immigrant working as a taxi driver in America. He is in love with a woman, Rosemary, whom he hardly knows but often watches through her living room window. Halim finally gets a call to drive Rosemary, but it is to a bad neighborhood in town. There, he witnesses her get stabbed and drives her to the hospital. This brings on a torturous night alone before he returns to the hospital ready to profess his love, only to find that she is engaged.
This paper will examine the relationship that unemployment benefit expenditure and unemployment rates have on crime rates. The study will focus on Spain, but will include analysis of five other European Union member states in the years 1993 to 2012. In times of unemployment and poor economic health, more individuals choose to perform criminal acts to make ends meet. We will use data from the European Commission and OECD databanks to create a reduced-form OLS model that is controlled for time. We found that this reduced-form is insufficient for analyzing the complex behavioral economics that go into the financial motivations for committing a crime. Our research did present opportunities and guidelines for further research to be done focusing on Spain’s metropolitan districts.
