It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays 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 finding …

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 …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

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 …

leads to constantly rising unemployment and tax rates. The resulting crisis may trigger new insights into economic …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …