Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war … employment were compulsorily directed into jobs and industries that were vital to the war effort. There were also many woman … involved owed their jobs to wartime industrial expansion. The majority of such women entered a world of work that had been …

success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the …

perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … bracketing the onset of the Nepalese Civil War, we find that higher levels of perceived income adequacy are associated with later … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …