id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_usdje7rsr5e5xp7zpxzf7whx54 Armin Falk Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime* 2011 34 .pdf application/pdf 12668 3330 78 The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly In Germany, the extent of right-wing extremist crimes is particularly problematic in Eastern states, the former communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). such as unemployment, have a signficant impact on crimes motivated by right-wing extremist, anti-foreigner, or racist attitudes. of unemployment on right-wing extremist crime in recent Germany is Krueger and Pischke Table 1 presents descriptive statistics on East-West differences in unemployment and right-wing parameter β now captures the effect of changes in the unemployment rate on right-wing crimes Table 4 therefore allows for differential effects of unemployment on right-wing extremist crime Table 1: Right-wing extremist crime and unemployment in East and West Germany, 1996-1999 Total right-wing extremist crime (REC) rate 0.829 2.570 1.127 1.741 Figure 1: Right-wing extremist crimes and unemployment, Germany 01.1996-12.1999 Figure 3: Total right-wing extremist crime and unemployment, East versus West Germany ./cache/work_usdje7rsr5e5xp7zpxzf7whx54.pdf ./txt/work_usdje7rsr5e5xp7zpxzf7whx54.txt