Prague Economic Papers 2021, 30(4):489-505 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.778

Military Recruitment and Czech Labour Market

Vladan Holcner ORCID...a, Monika Davidová ORCID...a, Jiøí Neubauer ORCID...a, ¥ubomír Kubínyi ORCID...a, Aloiz Flachbart ORCID...a
a University of Defence, Faculty of Military Leadership, Brno, Czech Republic

The article presents an empirical analysis of the relation between recruitment in the all-volunteer Czech Armed Forces and selected economic indicators, including actual economic performance, situation on the domestic labour market and development of defence expenditures based on data for the period 2005-2019. The relation between military recruitment and economic performance was examined using values of GDP and GDP dynamics (GDP index). General unemployment rate, the economic activity index1 and the military-to-general average wage ratio were used to analyse the relation of military recruitment and situation on the domestic labour market. The relation between military recruitment and defence expenditures was examined based on general defence burden (share of defence expenditures in GDP), state sector defence burden (share of defence expenditures in state budget expenditures) and year‑on‑year changes in defence expenditures.

Keywords: Recruitment, military, defence expenditures, labour market, unemployment, gross domestic product
JEL classification: C40, H50, J20, J40, M50

Received: September 15, 2020; Revised: May 10, 2021; Accepted: May 28, 2021; Prepublished online: June 3, 2021; Published: August 31, 2021  Show citation

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Holcner, V., Davidová, M., Neubauer, J., Kubínyi, ¥., & Flachbart, A. (2021). Military Recruitment and Czech Labour Market. Prague Economic Papers, 30(4), 489-505. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.778
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