Young Labour Economist Prize
EALE has instituted a Young Economists Award for the best
single authored paper presented at the annual conference by an economist who
completed his or her PhD no longer than three years ago. The prize is Euro
300.
Prize 2007, Oslo Conference
The prize committee,
including Alison Booth, Bertil Holmlund and Steve Machin, considered a
number of excellent submitted papers. The ranking was done independently by
the committee members and they all arrived at the same selection of the best
paper, namely
Thomas Siedler
Family and politics: Does parental unemployment cause right-wing extremism?
The paper examines the relationship between
experience of parental unemployment during childhood and young people’s
attitudes and xenophobia. Three different German data sets are used and the
author finds consistent support for a positive relationship between growing
up with unemployed parents and right-wing extremism.
The paper is an impressive
piece of empirical work that deals with an important issue.
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