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Ministry of Defence: Leaving the Services

Summary: The Ministry of Defence (the Department) needs to recruit around 20,000 men and women each year to the Armed Forces. The Department draws its workforce from a broad …

Profile of the Ex-Service Community in the UK

Summary: This is the first of a series of reports on the ex-Service community in the UK. This UK report sets out, for the first time: current and comprehensive estimates of the …

What happens to British veterans when they leave the armed forces?

Abstract: Background: Little is known about the factors associated with leaving the armed forces, or what predicts subsequent employment success for veterans. It is likely that …

Working Around the Military: Challenges to Military Spouse Employment and Education

Abstract: Successful recruiting and retention of the active duty force depends in large part on the extent to which service members and their spouses are satisfied with the …

From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction

Abstract: Segal’s (1988) research in work-family conflict looks at the fate of an “employee” who is caught between the demands of two very greedy institutions: the military …

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 …

The Incidence and Dimensions of Sexual Harassment in Academia and the Workplace

Abstract: Although only recently reaching public and scholarly awareness as an important issue, the sexual harassment of women workers and students has been a problem for as long …

Socioeconomic Status of World War II Veterans by Race: An Empirical Test of the Bridging Hypothesis

Abstract: Reasons for positive returns to military duty for World War II veterans twenty years after discharg are explored. The bridging hypothesis appears to be overly broad: what …