Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime

Zweimüller, Josef, Armin Falk and Andreas Kuhn
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Josef Zweimüller

No 7467, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We empirically test this hypothesis using data from Germany. We find that right-wing criminal activities occur more frequently when unemployment is high. 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.

Keywords: Hate crime; Right-wing extremism; Unemployment; Cost of unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J69 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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