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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2015
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - 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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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries
Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across … countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within … mothers', unemployment. We further test the robustness of our results considering unemployment benefits jointly with social …
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland : das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by descriptive statistical methods. The existing literature in political economy and political science mainly relies on interviews and survey results as well as on qualitative analyses...
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Learning to participate in politics : evidence from Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2017
This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...
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Anti‐elite politics and emotional reactions to socio‐economic problems : experimental evidence on "pocketbook anger" from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006185
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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000
social insurance system. Supplementary information on establishments and on unemployment periods in which a claimant received …
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Worker beliefs about outside options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2021
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
in direction and magnitude with the ones from objective unemployment and being out of the labor force. However, our …
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