Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime

被引：60

作者：

Falk, Armin ^{[1
]}

Kuhn, Andreas ^{[2
]}

Zweimueller, Josef ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bonn, DE-53113 Bonn, Germany

[2] Univ Zurich, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS | 2011年 / 113卷 / 02期

关键词：

Hate crime; right-wing extremism; cost of unemployment; J15; J69; K42; ATTITUDES; GERMANY;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1467-9442.2011.01648.x

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role in the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes (RECs). We test this hypothesis empirically using data from Germany. We find that right-wing criminal activities occur more frequently when unemployment is high. The substantial difference in the numbers of RECs occurring in the 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 RECs, and it questions explanations based solely on the different socialization in former communist East Germany and the liberal West German states.

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页码：260 / 285

页数：26

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