Youth bulges, insurrections and labor-market restrictions
Youth bulges, insurrections and labor-market restrictions
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New York: Springer Science + Business Media
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English
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New York: Springer Science + Business Media
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This paper analyzes the link between large youth cohorts and violent conflicts when labor-market restrictions are present. Such restrictions are expected to limit the youth cohort’s access to income opportunities in the formal economy, and thus lower the youth-specific opportunity cost of insurrection activities. We develop a theoretical model of i...
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Youth bulges, insurrections and labor-market restrictions
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2008200800
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2008200800
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0048-5829
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1573-7101
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10.1007/s11127-018-0514-8
