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Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?
Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people’s far right … unemployed parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses differences in unemployment levels … variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. This is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703736
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Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime
Falk, Armin; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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 rightwing 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/10005761991
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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884397
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Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions
Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959848
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Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015469
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They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015481
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703158
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Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle
Imbens, Guido W.; Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703339
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Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
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