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Title: Personnel Responses to Government Policy in the Wake of Military Service
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: The papers encompassing this dissertation examine the interaction of public policy and military personnel, their families, and veterans. Hiring selection, retention decisions, residency choices, and labor market participation are studied in the context of Veteran Preference in the federal civil service, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the Military Spouse Residency Relief Act, and the Nurse Licensure Compact. The first paper examines how mutual reciprocity of state occupational licensing reduces barriers to employment using a sample of active duty military spouses who do not have the luxury of making relocation decisions based on license transferability. Results indicate significant reductions in departures from the labor force, identifying the labor market inefficiencies created by single-state professional licensing. The second paper uses defense manpower data to evaluate the take-up rate of tax protection among servicemembers with respect to geographic differences in income tax rates. Although active utilization of protections afforded under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act are low, income tax avoidance appears to be a determining factor for domicile claims. Following the completion of military service, veterans have historically been granted preferential consideration for federal jobs. The final paper uses propensity score matching to evaluate how this affirmative action policy reshapes the composition of the federal civil service. Results indicate the policy runs counter to the idea of a representative bureaucracy and equal employment opportunity goals as women are most frequently displaced by veteran preference eligible job candidates. While these studies utilize samples of current and former military members, the results have implications regarding the influence of government polices on occupational licensing, tax policies, and equal opportunity employment that extend to the general population.
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Authors: Portlock, Charlotte A
Institution: Indiana University
Department: Business Economics and Publich Policy
Advisor: Haizhen Lin
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
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Countries: United States