Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … 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 …

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …

local unemployment rate is associated with an approximate shortfall in lifetime earnings of 6.5%. We also show that bad …