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Asevelvollisuuden kustannukset
Kaitila, Ville; Määttänen, Niku - 2021
We describe the costs of the conscription system from different perspectives. In particular, we consider the definition … budget. In addition, we review related literature and present calculations on the current costs of conscription in Finland. …
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Opportunity cost and the incidence of a draft lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie … - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337424
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Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694-1844
O'Brien, Patrick Karl; Palma, Nuno - 2020
From its foundation as a private corporation in 1694 the Bank of England extended large amounts of credit to support the British private economy and to support an increasingly centralized British state. The Bank helped the British state reach a position of geopolitical and economic hegemony in...
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Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state : the Bank of England and the British economy, 1694-1844
O'Brien, Patrick Karl; Palma, Nuno - 2020
From its foundation as a private corporation in 1694 the Bank of England extended large amounts of credit to support the British private economy and to support an increasingly centralized British state. The Bank helped the British state reach a position of geopolitical and economic hegemony in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304027
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Societal impacts of modern conscription : human capital, social capital and criminal behaviour
Almén, Daniel - 2020
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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352270
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Do guns displace books? The impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011
avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal effect of conscription … regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
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The production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas; Pieper, Paul - 2010
model. Military conscription with educational exemptions and the Vietnam War increased male PhD production in the U.S., but …
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Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K.; … - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
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The making of a manager: Evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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