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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
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The political economy of conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
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Reducing risks in wartime through capital-labor substitution : evidence from World War II
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2015
Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities...
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Long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service : a quasi-experiment using Australian conscription lotteries
Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; Siminski, Peter - 2015
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of...
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The causal effects of World War II military service
Cousley, Alex; Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon P. - 2016
The effects of military service have been studied for decades, but surprisingly few studies have estimated the effects of World War II (WW2) service, where the focus has been on the impact of this 'total war' on the broader civilian population. Over 90% of Australian males born in the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452236
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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498539
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Short-time work and precautionary savings
Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021
In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries use short-time work schemes (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. We build a New Keynesian model with...
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Output-employment relationship across sectors : a long- versus short-run perspective
Şahin, Afşin; Tansel, Aysıt; Berument, Hakan - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
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The productivity of working hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output … and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a … threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …
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