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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/10011345879
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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/10009743169
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343923
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343929
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Are your wages set in Beijing?
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 9 (1995) 3, pp. 15-32
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790383
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Why do so many young American men commit crimes and what might we do about it?
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 10 (1996) 1, pp. 25-42
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001205737
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In honor of David Card - winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 11 (1997) 2, pp. 161-178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001222878
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It's better being an economist (but don't tell anyone)
Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 13 (1999) 3, pp. 139-145
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