Dynamic costs of the draft

German Economic Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 381-406

  Lau, Morten I ^a   Poutvaara, Panu ^a   Wagener, Andreas ^b  

^a Ctr for Economic and Bus Research   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium models; Conscription; Distortionary taxation; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

COST; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR PARTICIPATION; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 10244270611     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-6485.2004.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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