Rise and Fall in the Third Reich: Social Mobility and Nazi Membership
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- Blum, Matthias & De Bromhead, Alan, 2017. "Rise and fall in the Third Reich: Social mobility and Nazi membership," QUCEH Working Paper Series 2017-04, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
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Keywords
National Socialism; Third Reich; Social Mobility; Nazi Membership; Second World War; Political Economy; Germany; Economic History;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- N24 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: 1913-
- N44 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: 1913-
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2017-04-02 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2017-04-02 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-POL-2017-04-02 (Positive Political Economics)
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