Arbeitspapier
Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that rely on a military draft to recruit their army personnel. For OECD countries, we show that military conscription indeed has a statistically significantly negative impact on economic performance.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2022
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Procurement
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Computable General Equilibrium Models
- Subject
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growth
military draft
augmented Solow model
Verteidigungshaushalt
Soldaten
Wehrdienst
Wirtschaftswachstum
OECD-Staaten
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Keller, Katarina
Poutvaara, Panu
Wagener, Andreas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2006
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Keller, Katarina
- Poutvaara, Panu
- Wagener, Andreas
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2006
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