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The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 6, pp. 1386-1417

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The replacement problem in frictional economies : a near-equivalence result

Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L. - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 5, pp. 1007-1057

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Immigration, Trade, and Austrian Unemployment

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316869

The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2010

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signifcant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and …

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Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime

Falk, Armin; Kuhn, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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