Youth Unemployment, Terrorism and Political Violence, Evidence from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
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Raul Caruso
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Evelina Gavrilova
Abstract
This paper analyzes the relationship between youth unemployment and Palestinian violence. First a qualitative explanation of the underlying mechanism is given. Eventually, empirical results suggest that there is a positive association between the growth rate of youth unemployment and the brutality and incidence of violence, proxied by the numbers of victims, and incidents. Results also show that: (i) there is a negative association between the added value in the agricultural sector and both measures of violence; (ii) there is a positive association between the share of employment in agriculture and violence; (iii) there is a negative association between manufacturing added value and brutality of incidents. Results also suggest that male youth unemployment rather than female unemployment helps to explain Palestinian violence.
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Research Paper
- Political Economy Studies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Introduction
- Youth Unemployment, Terrorism and Political Violence, Evidence from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
- The Impact of Employment in Israel on the Palestinian Labor Force
- The Impact of the Economic Costs of Conflict on Individuals' Political Attitudes
- Deterring or Mobilizing? The Influence of Government Partisanship and Force on the Frequency, Lethality and Suicide Attacks of Terror Events
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Research Paper
- Political Economy Studies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Introduction
- Youth Unemployment, Terrorism and Political Violence, Evidence from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
- The Impact of Employment in Israel on the Palestinian Labor Force
- The Impact of the Economic Costs of Conflict on Individuals' Political Attitudes
- Deterring or Mobilizing? The Influence of Government Partisanship and Force on the Frequency, Lethality and Suicide Attacks of Terror Events
