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Pirates – The Young and the Jobless: The Effect of Youth Bulges and Youth Labor Market Integration on Maritime Piracy

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  • T. Gries
  • M. Redlin

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This article examines the impact of youth bulges and the lack of perspective of this cohort associated with the insufficient absorption of the labor market on the emergence of piracy acts. For a large panel data-set on maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships for the period 1990–2015 negative binomial regression results indicate that a large fraction of young people in a country increases the likelihood of piracy attacks originating from that country. Further, the piracy-driving effect is conditional on constrains in the labor market. It increases when the young population is insufficiently integrated into the labor market and becomes insignificant for high levels of labor force participation. The dearth of prospects seems to lower the inhibition to make a living from criminal activity.

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  • T. Gries & M. Redlin, 2019. "Pirates – The Young and the Jobless: The Effect of Youth Bulges and Youth Labor Market Integration on Maritime Piracy," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 309-323, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:30:y:2019:i:3:p:309-323
    DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2017.1333797
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