Military Experience, Civilian Experience, and the Earnings of Veterans

Abstract:  This paper examines the effects of military exper experience on the earnings of veterans with the ob mining the substitutability of these two forms of sonnel receiving different types of military traini analysis, the Social Security earnings records of who separated from military service in fiscal yea obtained for the period 1972-77. Analysis of the that more military experience does increase subse earnings, but that the relative impact of military perience varies considerably by military occupation category.