Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 260-285

  Falk, Armin ^a   Kuhn, Andreas ^b   Zweimüller, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost of unemployment; Hate crime; Right wing extremism

Indexed keywords

CRIME; UNEMPLOYMENT;

GERMANY;

EID: 79956317448     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2011.01648.x     Document Type: Article

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