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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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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529021
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Businessman Candidates: Special-Interest Politics in Weakly Institutionalized Environments
Gehlbach, Scott; Sonin, Konstantin - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
We initiate examination of the political boundaries of the firm by exploring the phenomenon of “businessman candidates”: business owners and managers who bypass conventional means of political influence to run for public office themselves. We argue that in-house production of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652556
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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...
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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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Dictators and Their Viziers: Agency Problems in Dictatorships
Egorov, Georgy; Sonin, Konstantin - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
The possibility of treason by a close associate has been a nightmare of most dictators throughout history. Better informed viziers are also better able to discriminate among potential plotters, and this makes them more risky subordinates for the dictator. To avoid this, dictators, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784725
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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