Unemployment and Right‐wing Extremist Crime*

Falk, Armin; Kühn, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2011.01648.x

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“…The Eurobarometer does not contain information on parenthood but only lists the number of children aged under 15. 22 Our findings that unemployment plays an important role independent of being directly affected are similar to the results by Falk et al (2011) in the context of right-wing extremist crimes. They analyze the effect of regional unemployment rates on right-wing extremist crimes in German states.…”

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Political support in hard times: Do people care about national welfare?

Friedrichsen

Zahn

2014

European Journal of Political Economy

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During the Great Recession mass demonstrations indicated weakened political support in Europe. We show that growing dissatisfaction reflects poor economic conditions; unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western European countries for 1976-2010, we find that national economic performance even matters beyond personal economic outcomes. Finally, while effects of growth and unemployment rates are the same across demographic subsets, the effect of inflation is heterogeneous. Younger, well-educated, or working individuals put relatively higher weight on price stability than the elderly, less skilled or not working. Our findings reinforce the political importance of employment and growth policies.

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confidence: 79%

Political support in hard times: Do people care about national welfare?

Friedrichsen

Zahn

2014

European Journal of Political Economy

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“…Overall, the panel estimates are consistent with the relative deprivation theory (Kleinert et al, 1998;Falk et al, 2011), which suggests that unemployment or the fear of losing one's job might cause a decline in social status and intensify anti-foreign sentiments and far right-wing attitudes.…”

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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Geishecker

Siedler

2012

SSRN Journal

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“…The other relevant piece of statistical work (that we are aware of) is Krueger and Pischke's (1997) examination of hate crimes in post-unification Germany (together with extensions of this work by Falk et al, 2011, and related work on extremism by Siedler, 2006). Their initial model finds a relationship between economic conditions and hate crimes, but once a dummy for East/West Germany has been added, and the model has been adjusted for censoring at zero (since a negative number of hate crimes is not possible) using a Tobit specification, the effect of unemployment disappears entirely.…”

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Hate Crime in the Wake of Terror Attacks

Hanes

Machin

2014

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This paper asks a straightforward question -what happened to racially motivated hate crimes in the wake of the 7/7 terror attack that hit London in July 2005 and the 9/11 terror attack that hit the US in September 2001. There is anecdotal and statistical evidence of an increase in bias-motivated crimes since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, but no quantitative research that has accurately pinned down the magnitudes of any hate crime increase that ensued. The study provides a unique estimate of the magnitude and duration of the effects of 7/7 and 9/11 on hate crime using data from four police force areas in England with sizable Asian/Arab populations. We find significant increases in hate crimes against Asians and Arabs that occurred almost immediately in the wake of both terror attacks and which lasted for a prolonged period. Moreover, hate crimes against Asians and Arabs do not return back to their pre-attack levels, showing a permanent increase in the wake of the attacks. We argue that this demonstrates a strong link between terror attacks and increases in hate crime and hypothesise that attitudinal changes from media coverage act as an underlying driver.JEL Classifications: K42.

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Unemployment and Right‐wing Extremist Crime*

Cited by 106 publications

References 31 publications

Political support in hard times: Do people care about national welfare?

Political support in hard times: Do people care about national welfare?

Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Hate Crime in the Wake of Terror Attacks

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