Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: Evidence from panel data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 737-758

  Siedler, Thomas ^a,b  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intergenerational links; Right wing extremism; Selection and identification; Sibling estimators; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960027832     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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