the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … unemployed parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses differences in unemployment levels … variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. This is consistent …

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 …