Being an American citizen in the 1960s is a hazardous occupation filled with peril.
As economist Jeff Faux of the Economic Policy Institute has observed, "the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2014 the number of occupations filled by people with college degrees will rise by merely one percentage point -- from 28percentto29percentcent".
Most of the new jihadis had no connection to terrorism before the Iraq war; the American occupation has filled them with fantasies of violent death.
In addition to causing the deaths of over 20,000 people before it fizzled into a cease-fire in 1994, the Karabakh conflict has left 20% of Azerbaijan under Armenian occupation and filled the country with one million internal refugees out of a total population of seven million.
"Yes, I've got plenty of other occupations to fill in my time intelligently," replies Masters, unable to be swayed from her vocation.
In their most recent annual diversity report, Google shared that 31% of its employees are women, and only 20% of its technology roles (vs administrative occupations) are filled by women.
If these capture mainly the effects through human capital depreciation, we may expect those to be relatively smaller in occupations typically filled by women.
Due to the high degree of vocational specificity and standardization, firms can rely on the acquired occupation-specific qualifications when filling vacant posts (Müller and Shavit 1998; Kerckhoff 2001; Wolter et al. 2006).
As another LSE occupier, Kasia, said: "The occupation managed to fill the air with the sense that education is ours – not yours or mine to have".
At first, after the occupation, it was filled with offices and quarters; the western hall became a club house, the eastern hall a church.
