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Simulation of recruitment to terrorism
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Employment Intervention (n.1) #43

Open mariopaolucci opened 5 years ago

mariopaolucci commented 5 years ago

(from HUJI)

In this experiment a government-led initiative would match employers with a targeted population of unemployed individuals who are considered to be high-risk. The employers would be offered incentives to hire such individuals. Individuals will be considered high-risk based on a risk assessment that will look at factors such as: Age (16-30), immigrant status (first generation), education (high-school graduates).
In order to run this experiment, the selected individuals will become employed at the simulation's initialization.

The primary effects of this model will be:

  1. Direct-On the propensity equation
  2. Indirect- On the routine activities of the agent which determine differential associations.

This simulation can be run identically for both Islamic and Right-Wing groups, with the exception of the immigrant status variable's inclusion in the risk assessment.

The experimental manipulation would be:

  1. World without the employment program.
  2. World in which all individuals who meet the threshold are placed in the program.
mariopaolucci commented 5 years ago

would they steal jobs? HUJI: NO, it's new jobs, it's not a zero-sum game.