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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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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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Unemployment dynamics and duration dependence in France, The Netherlands and the UK
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1993
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Job vacancies and employers' search : an empirical analysis of Dutch job vacancy data
Ours, Jan C. van - 1989
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Durations of Dutch job vacancies
Ours, Jan C. van - 1988
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Career interruptions and subsequent earnings : a case study for the Netherlands
Groot, Wim; Ours, Jan C. van - 1993
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Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?
Ours, Jan C. van; Vodopivec, Milan - In: Journal of public economics 92 (2008) 3/4, pp. 684-695
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How to help unemployed find jobs quickly : experimental evidence from a mandatory activation program
Graversen, Brian Krogh; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Journal of public economics 92 (2008) 10/11, pp. 2020-2035
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343926
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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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