| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP4997
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| DP4997 Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime |
| Josef Zweimüller; Armin Falk
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| 发表日期 | 2005-04-23
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| 出版年 | 2005
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we empirically test this hypothesis. We use a previously unused dataset that includes all officially recorded right-wing criminal acts in Germany. These data are recorded by the German Federal Criminal Police Office on a monthly state-level basis. Our main finding is that there is in fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that 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 and questions explanations based solely on the different socialization in former communist East Germany and the liberal West German states. Our data further allow us to separate violent from non-violent right-wing crimes. We show that unemployment is closely related to both types of crimes, but that the association with non-violent crimes is much stronger. Since right-wing crime is committed particularly by relatively young males, we also explore whether the youth unemployment rate is a better predictor for right-wing crime than total unemployment. This hypothesis can be rejected: given total unemployment, a higher share of youth unemployment does not affect right-wing extremist crime rates. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Hate crime
Right-wing extremism
Unemployment
Cost of unemployment
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp4997
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533895
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GB/T 7714 |
Josef Zweimüller,Armin Falk. DP4997 Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime. 2005.
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