Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three German data...

We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...

Kurt A. Hafner, Bayerisches Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung, München, stellt die Ergebnisse einer im Auftrag der Europäischen Kommission durchgeführten Studie zu Firmenclustern und Innovationstätigkeit deutscher Unternehmen vor. Die Studie zeigt, dass der...