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Liebenberg Jcr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The willing and the not so willing : conscription and resistance to Compulsory Military Service in South Africa, 1968-1989
    Journal of Contemporary History, 2012
    Co-Authors: Du Plessis T, Van Der Westhuizen G, Liebenberg Jcr
    Abstract:

    South Africa participated in two world wars without implementing Compulsory Military Service. Following the Second World War, the Union Defence Force relied on the Active Citizen Force to supplement its manpower needs. Leaders of the ruling National Party, influenced by the Cold War psychosis, myopically believed that global conflict was defined by two ideologies in a deadly struggle for dominance, nationalism and communism. Apartheid advocates made a distinction between the white "us" and the black "them"; Christianity against barbarism; Marxism-Leninism against Christian-Nationalism. Maintaining Nationalist rule increasingly demanded manpower. Conscription for white men was a reality for twenty years, supplying conscripts for border duty and later for suppressing internal unrest. More than 500 000 served in the Military, many of them in northern Namibia, Angola and South African townships. War resisters were monitored, ostracised, ridiculed, forced to emigrate or jailed. This contribution shares some thoughts on the issue, including moral objections to apartheid violence and the militarisation of South African society.

Christoph M Schmidt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Do guns displace books? The impact of Compulsory Military Service on educational attainment
    Economics Letters, 2014
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    To estimate the causal effect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany. There is evidence that conscription increased the likelihood of completing higher education.

  • evaluating the labor market effects of Compulsory Military Service
    European Economic Review, 2012
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    We identify the causal effect of Compulsory Military Service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the Military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the effect of Military Service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the "White Cohort") who were exempted from Compulsory Military Service to men who were born on or shortly after this threshold date and hence faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage premium of those who served in the armed forces vanish when selection effects are taken into account.

  • Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
    2011
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    Compulsory Military Service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital investments. Attending university, however, might open the possibility to avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal eff ect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design that employs special regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the probability of having a university degree.

  • Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    Compulsory Military Service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital investments. Attending university, however, might open the possibility to avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal effect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design that employs special regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the probability of having a university degree.

  • Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service – A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    We identify the causal effect of Compulsory Military Service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the Military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of Military Service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the “White Cohort”) who were exempted from Compulsory Military Service to men who were born on or shortly after this threshold date and hence faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage premium of those who served in the armed forces vanish when selection effects are taken into account.

S.n. Wong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • late onset hydroa vacciniforme two case reports
    British Journal of Dermatology, 2001
    Co-Authors: S.n. Wong, S H Tan, S W Khoo
    Abstract:

    Hydroa vacciniforme (HV) is a rare blistering photodermatosis that heals with vacciniform scarring, with onset usually in childhood and spontaneous resolution by early adulthood. We report two cases of HV seen at the National Skin Centre, Singapore, both with a late onset at 20 years of age, during Compulsory Military Service, and one with a less typical non-vesicular presentation, that initially caused some diagnostic difficulties.

  • Late‐onset hydroa vacciniforme: two case reports
    The British journal of dermatology, 2001
    Co-Authors: S.n. Wong
    Abstract:

    Hydroa vacciniforme (HV) is a rare blistering photodermatosis that heals with vacciniform scarring, with onset usually in childhood and spontaneous resolution by early adulthood. We report two cases of HV seen at the National Skin Centre, Singapore, both with a late onset at 20 years of age, during Compulsory Military Service, and one with a less typical non-vesicular presentation, that initially caused some diagnostic difficulties.

Alfredo R Paloyo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Do guns displace books? The impact of Compulsory Military Service on educational attainment
    Economics Letters, 2014
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    To estimate the causal effect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany. There is evidence that conscription increased the likelihood of completing higher education.

  • evaluating the labor market effects of Compulsory Military Service
    European Economic Review, 2012
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    We identify the causal effect of Compulsory Military Service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the Military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the effect of Military Service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the "White Cohort") who were exempted from Compulsory Military Service to men who were born on or shortly after this threshold date and hence faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage premium of those who served in the armed forces vanish when selection effects are taken into account.

  • Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
    2011
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    Compulsory Military Service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital investments. Attending university, however, might open the possibility to avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal eff ect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design that employs special regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the probability of having a university degree.

  • Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Thomas K Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R Paloyo, Christoph M Schmidt
    Abstract:

    Compulsory Military Service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital investments. Attending university, however, might open the possibility to avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal effect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design that employs special regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the probability of having a university degree.

  • Compulsory Military Service in Germany Revisited
    2010
    Co-Authors: Alfredo R Paloyo
    Abstract:

    This paper estimates the causal impact of Compulsory Military Service on men in Germany using social security and pension administrative data for the cohort of individuals born in the period 1932-1942. Due to the combination of laws restricting conscription only to men born on or after July 1, 1937, difference-in-differences estimates of the effect of conscription on average daily wages can be computed using cohorts of women as a comparison group. The results indicate that conscription had no significant impact on a draftee's labor-market performance, validating an earlier result using an alternative identification strategy.

Du Plessis T - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The willing and the not so willing : conscription and resistance to Compulsory Military Service in South Africa, 1968-1989
    Journal of Contemporary History, 2012
    Co-Authors: Du Plessis T, Van Der Westhuizen G, Liebenberg Jcr
    Abstract:

    South Africa participated in two world wars without implementing Compulsory Military Service. Following the Second World War, the Union Defence Force relied on the Active Citizen Force to supplement its manpower needs. Leaders of the ruling National Party, influenced by the Cold War psychosis, myopically believed that global conflict was defined by two ideologies in a deadly struggle for dominance, nationalism and communism. Apartheid advocates made a distinction between the white "us" and the black "them"; Christianity against barbarism; Marxism-Leninism against Christian-Nationalism. Maintaining Nationalist rule increasingly demanded manpower. Conscription for white men was a reality for twenty years, supplying conscripts for border duty and later for suppressing internal unrest. More than 500 000 served in the Military, many of them in northern Namibia, Angola and South African townships. War resisters were monitored, ostracised, ridiculed, forced to emigrate or jailed. This contribution shares some thoughts on the issue, including moral objections to apartheid violence and the militarisation of South African society.