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...

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

This paper gives a short synoptical overview of the most important elements of current anti-immigration policy in Germany. Based on the Hypothesis that its primary aim is exclusion of new migrants, the measures taken within the framework of a group wise nationally oriented but internationally...

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

Die vorliegende Studie identifiziert durch die ökonometrische Auswertung eines selbsterstellten neuen Datensatzes auf Stadtteilebene die Auswirkungen von Zuwanderung, Kriminalität und sozio-ökonomischer Deprivation auf die Ergebnisse von rechtsextremistischen und populistischen Parteien im...

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...