Drafting the competition: Labor unions and military conscription

Military Draft and Economic Growth in Oecd Countries

“…Their example of a typical such country is France, which actually abolished conscription in 2001. Moreover, based on cross-sectional data from 1980, Anderson et al (1996) conclude that "warlike" states are more likely to employ conscription.…”

How to quickly get a job? The transition from higher education to French labour market by a survival model

“…[H12] Individuals that have done their national service in army have more difficulties to find a job. In this case, serviceman cannot immediately prospect for a job and they are set back in their professional career (Anderson, Halcoussis and Tollison, 1996;Warner and Negrusa, 2005). This assumption is tested by "Army" variable.…”

Military conscription, external security, and income inequality: The missing link

“… 13. On this point see Levi’s (1996) discussion of the role of organized labor in the main Anglo-Saxon democracies in the context of military manpower mobilization during the First World War. By contrast, Anderson et al (1996) argue that labor unions may expect to benefit from conscription as it removes young low-skilled non-unionized competitors from the market. …”

“…In political science, scholars have been studying this intertemporal and cross-sectional variation in the use of military conscription using both quantitative and qualitative methods. In terms of the determinants of military conscription, most studies have centered around factors such as democracy and public opinion (Adam, 2012; Caverley, 2014; Horowitz and Levendusky, 2011), militarization and security environment (Cohen, 1985), historical path-dependence (Avant, 2000; Irondelle, 2003), colonial legacy (Asal et al, 2017), and labor market institutions (Anderson et al, 1996; Cohn and Toronto, 2017). In terms of the effects of military conscription, a number of empirical studies treat the type of military manpower system (MMS) as a right-hand-side variable and estimate its relationship with particular types of foreign and defense policy.…”