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Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design

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dc.creator Mehay, Stephen L.
dc.creator Hirsch, Barry T.
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:10:28Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:10:28Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20428
dc.identifier ppn:362031606
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20428
dc.description A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty service are estimated using the 1986 and 1992 Reserve Components Surveys, which permit a matched comparison between reservists who are veterans and reservists without active-duty service. Because military entrance requirements are identical for the reserves and active duty, estimated treatment effects embody control for selection by the military and selection by workers for a form of military service. Results are presented for officers and enlisted personnel and by race and era of service. The average impact of active-duty service on civilian earnings is 3 percent among the reservist population, but this average reflects treatment effects of essentially zero for enlisted personnel and 10 percent for officers. Among white enlisted personnel, veteran effects are negative but small. Treatment effects for African-American veterans average about 5 percent. Vietnam-era white draftees are found to have suffered an approximate 5 percent wage penalty and volunteers little penalty, but estimates from the reservist sample are likely to understate negative effects from Vietnamera service.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 740
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J3
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject veterans
dc.subject civilian earnings
dc.subject matched comparison group
dc.subject Soldaten
dc.subject Berufliche Integration
dc.subject Lohn
dc.subject Bildungsertrag
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Vereinigte Staaten
dc.title Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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