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Title: Three Essays on the Employment of Veterans
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: This dissertation consists of three chapters; each chapter is organized as a separate essay. All three essays focus on the effect of the military service on the civilian labor market performance of veterans. Chapter 1 examines the unemployment impact of prior military service on the veterans. In order to control for non-random selection into the military, chapter introduces new set of instrumental variables exploiting the variation in economic and military characteristics of the states when young people make their enlistment decisions. Using Integrated Public Use Microdata Series from the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2008 to 2014, I find that among those in the civilian non-institutional labor force, veterans are equally likely to be unemployed as comparable non-veterans once they are in the labor force. In 2011, the Veterans Opportunity to Work to Hire Heroes Act was established to improve the employment outcomes of veterans. Using data from the Current Population Survey from 2010 to 2013, Chapter 2 provides evidence on the impact of the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011 (VOW) on labor market performance of veterans. The effect of the legislation . . .
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Authors: Ayan, Davut Emrah
Institution: University of Kansas
Department: Economics
Advisor: Donna K. Ginther
Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Lawrence, Kansas
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Aging and Retirement, Other, Poverty and Welfare
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