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Dodging a Draft: Gary Becker's Lost Paper on Conscription
Gibbs, Michael; Perri, Tim - 2021
Gary Becker wrote what may be the first economic analysis of conscription. Less than a decade later, economists played … military draft. Becker had connections to many of those economists who studied the economics of conscription, and his paper … foreshadowed many of the ideas in that literature. Despite this, none cited his paper on conscription. We discuss this history and …
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Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009
estimators ; conscription …Wir identifizieren den kausalen Effekt der Wehrdienstpflicht für eingezogene Personen im Bezug auf den Arbeitsmarkt, in …
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A Nordic model of gender and military work? : labour demand, gender equality and women's integration in the armed forces of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Ahlbäck, Anders; Sundevall, Fia; Hjertquist, Johanna - In: Scandinavian economic history review 72 (2024) 1, pp. 49-66
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Chapter 13 The economics of military manpower
Warner, John T. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 347-398). 1995
surveyed include the supply of personnel, personnel productivity and the demand for personnel, procurement by conscription …
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Is There a Right to Job Quality? Reenvisioning Workforce Development
Harris, Jonathan F. - 2020
The coronavirus crisis has led to the unemployment of millions of workers and exposed a labor market that is full of poor-quality jobs. Policymakers intuitively resort to upgrading worker skills as a workforce response to the pandemic; however, the problem isn't with retraining. The nation's...
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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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Skills-Approximate Occupations : Using Networks to Guide Jobs Retraining
Waters, Keith; Shutters, Shade T. - 2021
An issue often confronting economic development agencies is how to minimize unemployment due to disruptions like technological change, trade wars, recessions, or other economic shocks. Decision makers are left to craft policies that can absorb surplus labor with as little pain to workers as...
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions onInitial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation,and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals firstentering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect ofunfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect.Specifically, we...
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Misallocation of talent in competitive labor markets
Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Nikolowa, Radoslawa - 2015
We develop a model in which competition in the labor market may produce worker-firm matches that are inferior to those obtained in the absence of competition. This result contrasts with the conventional wisdom that competition among employers allocates scarce talent efficiently. In a model in...
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The impact of labor market entry conditions on initial job assignment, human capital accumulation, and wages
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312922