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Civil returns of military training: a study of young men in Sweden / Hanes, Niklas; Norlin, Erik; Sjostrom, Magnus

Hanes, Niklas	Journal Article
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2010.

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The purpose of our study was to examine the effect of military training on the earnings of young men in Sweden. The analysis is based on the cohort of males born in 1973. This cohort was conscripted during a time of rapid change in Swedish security policy and substantial cutbacks in the armed forces. As a consequence, a relatively large proportion of the cohort was assigned a service category after the enlistment test but one third of these individuals were never conscripted. We argue that these organizational changes, along with data on important background variables, make it possible to rely on selection on observables. A clear finding is that military training has a positive effect on annual earnings at the age of 30 for those men in the category 'private soldier' who do not subsequently obtain a high level of educational.

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Military Training ; Sweden ; Conscription ; Earnings ; Enlistment Test

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Self-Selection and Recruit Quality in Sweden’s All Volunteer Force: Do Civilian Opportunities Matter? / Bäckström, Peter

Bäckström, Peter	Journal Article
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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 in recruit quality.

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Military recruitment ; Enlistment Test ; Military Labour Market ; Self-Selection ; Roy Model

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