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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 …

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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,...

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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...

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Happiness, Economy and Institutions

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …

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The impact of labor market entry conditions on initial job assignment, human capital accumulation, and wages

Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

local unemployment rate is associated with an approximate shortfall in lifetime earnings of 6.5%. We also show that bad …

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A multiplicity of approaches to institutional analysis. Applications to the government and the arts

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

Four types of “economics” relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an...

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Highway to Hitler

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014

government. It was intended to reduce unemployment, and was widely used for propaganda purposes. We examine its role in …

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Immigration and voting for the extreme right

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

Extreme-right-wing (ERW) parties are on the rise in many countries. Moreover, there is an alarmingly high cross-country correlation between the election success of ERW parties and immigration. Motivated by this evidence, we explore one potentially important channel through which immigration may...

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