Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service

This article considers the impact that Germany's compulsory military service (CMS) had on the lifetime earnings potential of those who served, compared to those born afterwards. …

Military Pay Gaps and Caps

Abstract: This report investigates the military/civilian pay gap and its implications for capping military pay increases. The pay gap is defined as the percent difference in …

Military Service and the Civilian Labor Force: Time- and Income-Based Evidence

Abstract: This article explores military and veteran earnings and employment. It suggests that for a 21st century cohort, military service increases the earnings for those in …

Earn all that you can earn: income differences between women veterans and non-veterans

This article examines earnings differences between women veterans and non-veterans. It finds that younger women veterans experienced an earnings disadvantage compared to same-age …

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 …