This paper studies how local labour market conditions influence the quality composition of those who volunteer for military service in Sweden. A fixed-effects regression model is estimated on a panel data set containing IQ scores for those who applied for military basic training across Swedish municipalities during the period 2010 to 2016. The main finding is that low civilian employment rates at the local level tend to increase the mean IQ score of those who volunteer for military service, whereas the opposite is true if employment rates in the civilian labour market move in a more favourable direction. As such, the results suggest that the negative impact of a strong civilian economy on recruitment volumes is reinforced by a deterioration...
This dissertation contains three essays that use detailed administrative military data combined with...
The military is a major employer of young men. Yet there has been very little work done on the impac...
Within the last twenty years, the Swedish military has been drastically reduced in size and capabili...
This thesis consists of an introductory part and two self-contained chapters related to the supply o...
The Swedish Armed Forces have undergone a significant change where we have gone from recruitment thr...
Under the United Nations’ proposal of downsizing military plans for peacekeeping, countries are cont...
This thesis consists of an introductory part and four self-contained papers that study empirical que...
The purpose of this thesis was to study the prerequisites for the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) in orde...
This paper uses detailed individual register data to identify the causal effect of mandatory peaceti...
We study the effect of peacekeeping on post-deployment earnings for military veterans. Using Swedish...
This thesis aims to analyse how well recruits of the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) have embraced soldie...
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work expe...
The Swedish Armed Forces has undergone a number of changes during the 2000s and is today facing a pe...
The well-being of the Swedish peacekeepers deployed to Bosnia in the 1990s has received a great deal...
The study has twelve chapters. After a brief introduction in chapter 1 the development and scope of ...
This dissertation contains three essays that use detailed administrative military data combined with...
The military is a major employer of young men. Yet there has been very little work done on the impac...
Within the last twenty years, the Swedish military has been drastically reduced in size and capabili...
This thesis consists of an introductory part and two self-contained chapters related to the supply o...
The Swedish Armed Forces have undergone a significant change where we have gone from recruitment thr...
Under the United Nations’ proposal of downsizing military plans for peacekeeping, countries are cont...
This thesis consists of an introductory part and four self-contained papers that study empirical que...
The purpose of this thesis was to study the prerequisites for the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) in orde...
This paper uses detailed individual register data to identify the causal effect of mandatory peaceti...
We study the effect of peacekeeping on post-deployment earnings for military veterans. Using Swedish...
This thesis aims to analyse how well recruits of the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) have embraced soldie...
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work expe...
The Swedish Armed Forces has undergone a number of changes during the 2000s and is today facing a pe...
The well-being of the Swedish peacekeepers deployed to Bosnia in the 1990s has received a great deal...
The study has twelve chapters. After a brief introduction in chapter 1 the development and scope of ...
This dissertation contains three essays that use detailed administrative military data combined with...
The military is a major employer of young men. Yet there has been very little work done on the impac...
Within the last twenty years, the Swedish military has been drastically reduced in size and capabili...