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Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime
Falk, Armin; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627832
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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
Speckesser, Stefan; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Bergemann, Annette - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097806
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Bowling for fascism: social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim; Satyanath, Shanker - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze Nazi Party entry in a cross-section of cities,...
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God does not play dice, but people should: random selection in politics, science and society
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have played a significant role in history, especially in classical Greece and the medieval city-states of Italy. We examine the important positive features of decisions by random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817312
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Tullock Challenges: happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges”. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003653
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Why High Human Capital Makes Good Revolutionaries: The Role of the Middle Classes in Democratisation
Toscani, Frederik - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2013
This paper studies how human capital affects agents' tendency to participate in revolutions and consequently political outcomes. We show that since human capital is not expropriatable in the way land or other assets are, revolutions are more attractive if human capital is an important source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700214
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To shape the future: How labor market entry conditions affect individuals' long-run wage profiles
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509391
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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097945
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The School-to-Work Transition: A Cross-National Perspective
Ryan, P. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2000
School-to-work patterns and issues are discussed for seven economies (France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK and US). The emphasis is placed on differences across countries in both the current labour market position of young people and recent trends therein, along with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783836
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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098068