Youth Unemployment, Terrorism and Political Violence, Evidence from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Caruso, Raul; Gavrilova, Evelina

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“…Caruso and Gavrilova (2012) focus on the connection between fluctuations in unemployment of young Palestinians and the observed level of violence extending the work on this topic of Benmelech et al (2012). The results in Caruso and Gavrilova (2012) show that there is a strong positive correlation between youth unemployment and Palestinian violence. They also provide an explanation of possible mechanisms behind this relationship and explore, in detail, this correlation across industries.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…[e.g., Karol and Miguel (2007) and Gould and Klor (2012) [Lyall (2009[Lyall ( , 2010] and on Asian and African countries [e.g., Caruso and Schneider (2012)] just to name a few conflicts and a selected number of a long list of very interesting research projects. Klor (2006 and and Gould and Klor (2010) perform empirical analyses of the effect of terrorism on political attitudes of representative samples of the Israeli population using different data sets and methodologies.…”

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Political Economy Studies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Introduction

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2012

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Political Economy Studies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Introduction

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2012

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“…A research by Caruso and Gavrilova analysed the relationship between unemployment and Violence in Pakistan. The findings indicated that most of the violence was stemming from the fact that many youths in that country were unemployed (Caruso & Gavrilova, 2012). The study in Pakistan appears to be one that can be compared largely to the Zambian environment where traces of political violence have been evident in every election in the last ten (10) years and involving the youth (Oliver, 2016).…”

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The Impact of Youth Unemployment on the Zambian Economy

2020

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This research looks at the issue of youth unemployment and how this affects the Zambian economy. The paper focuses on examining how the productive age in Zambia has been disadvantaged by the introduction of some regulations and policies. The paper brings into perspective the shrinking employment opportunities for the youth and how this effects productivity in key economic sectors such as mining, agriculture and the private sector. The findings indicate that the increase in the pensionable age disadvantages the youth and further increases the unemployment rate for the youth and women. The findings have also brought out the challenges that are faced by the unemployed youth and how they have been forced to engage in crime and political violence in order for them to make a living. The youth in Zambia represent 60% of the total employable age yet instead of being in wellpaying and productive jobs; they are involved in crime, prostitution, drug abuse and alcohol abuse. The research outcomes also indicate that the definitions of a youth in the Zambian youth policy and the definitions of a youth by the United Nations are different and this may pose a challenge in terms of statistics and planning purposes. The paper takes a secondary research approach by reviewing research findings that have been drawn from analysing the different opinions, facts and findings from researchers on the topic of youth unemployment and government policies and laws on youth employment. Indicators from the findings are that youth unemployment is a global problem, which affects even rich countries such as the UK that has a huge GDP than that of Zambia. The conclusion in the paper is that there is a direct connection between youth unemployment and economic growth and that governments must ensure that they put youth employment at the centre of national economic planning.

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“…In 2004 unemployment levels reached 23%, whereas the poverty level rose substantially, with 47% of Palestinians living below the official poverty line of 2.1 USD per day as estimated by The World Bank (2004). In turn, there is a positive association between the growth rate of youth unemployment and the brutality and incidence of violence (Caruso and Gavrilova 2012;Sayre 2009).…”

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Social Crisis Prevention: A Political Alert Index for the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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This study presents a novel approach to crisis prevention based on data on premonitory political and religious events and the international media coverage of publicly sensitive circumstances. We implement our method to the IsraelPalestine conflict. First we identify two main political scenarios associated with "good" and "bad" political times of low or high levels of political unrest using a hierarchical clustering technique. Then we construct a political alert index to predict the probability of occurrence of good and bad times. Bad times are positively and significantly associated with the number of Israeli victims at the checkpoints, the number of homeless or injured Palestinians and with the number of demolitions. The number of Palestinian prisoners and injured Israelis negatively affect the probability of occurrence of a bad time. Media coverage is positively and significantly associated with the transition to bad times. Our results show that our statistical tool can be a reliable method for early warning of social crisis and can be effectively replicated to other social crisis situations.

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Youth Unemployment, Terrorism and Political Violence, Evidence from the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Cited by 28 publications

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Political Economy Studies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Introduction

Political Economy Studies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Introduction

The Impact of Youth Unemployment on the Zambian Economy

Social Crisis Prevention: A Political Alert Index for the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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