Unemployment and Violent Extremism
Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large sample of Daesh's foreign recruits, this paper finds that a lack of economic opportunities -- measured by unemployment rates disaggregated by country and education level -- explains foreign enrollment in the terrorist organization, especially for countries that are geographically closer to the Syrian Arab Republic.
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018-03
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| Subjects: | TERRORISM, UNEMPLOYMENT, RADICALIZATION, INCLUSION, EXTREMISM, VIOLENCE, DAESH, ISIL, ISIS, RECRUITMENT, FANATICS, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/967561522155860057/Unemployment-and-violent-extremism-evidence-from-Daesh-foreign-recruits https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29561 |
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