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Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits

Mohamed Abdel Jelil (), Kartika Bhatia, Anne Brockmeyer, Quy-Toan Do and Clément Joubert ()
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No 1293, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State (also known as Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks, and perpetrate attacks around the world. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large sample of Daesh’s foreign recruits, we find 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 Syria.

Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2019, Revised 2019
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