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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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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...

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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...

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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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Great expectations : past wages and unemployment durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

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Labor market entry and earnings dynamics : Bayesian inference using mixtures-of-experts Markov chain clustering

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2010

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. We … set. Further, we investigate the effects of labor market conditions at the time of entry on the probability of belonging …

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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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