Specification of veteran status in estimating post-service civilian earnings.

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Higgins, Roger J.
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1984-06Advisor
Thomas, George W.
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McGarvey, William E.
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This thesis analyzes the earnings of veterans and nonveterans
by race over a fourteen year period from 1966 to
1980, using the National Longitudinal Survey for Young Men
aged 14 to 24 in 1966. The primary finding is that bonafide
first term enlistees tend to have different returns
to their veteran status than veterans as a whole and multi-term
veterans in particular, and that these returns, on
average, tend to be positive. This thesis also develops
criteria for a single term of enlistment by length of
service in a particular branch of the armed forces. In
support of these findings, a working definition of full
employment is also developed. The estimates of earnings
equations for the fully employed subset of people are
compared to the entire sample of National Longitudinal
Survey of Young Men.
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