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Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? : the case of the freedom party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one s neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? : the case of the freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party...

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Unemployment and right-wing extremist crime

Falk, Armin; Kuhn, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

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 …

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

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Unemployment insurance and the labor market

Zweimüller, Josef - 2018

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …

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Immigration and the work force : economic consequences for the United States and source areas

Borjas, George J. (ed.); Freeman, Richard B. (contributor) - 1992

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Immigration and the Work Force : Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas

Borjas, George J. - 2007

the labor force, wage rates, and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980s. The …

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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294847