Employment effects of army service and veterans' compensation: Evidence from the australian vietnam-era conscription lotteries

Siminski, P

Employment effects of army service and veterans' compensation: Evidence from the australian vietnam-era conscription lotteries

Siminski, P

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Citation:: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), pp. 87 - 97
Issue Date:: 2013-10-28

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dc.contributor.author	Siminski, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-8049	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-10-28	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), pp. 87 - 97	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0034-6535	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122160
dc.description.abstract	Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect of army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records, tax returns, veterans' compensation records, and the Census facilitate a rich and precise analysis, identified by 53,000 complying conscripts. The estimated employment effect is -12 percentage points (95% CI: -13, -11) overall, -37 for those who served in Vietnam and 0 for those who served only in Australia. It emerged in the 1990s, mirrored by veterans' disability pension effects. These results contrast with those for the United States, possibly reflecting employment disincentives associated with Australia's veterans' compensation system. © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Review of Economics and Statistics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1162/REST_a_00246	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	Employment effects of army service and veterans' compensation: Evidence from the australian vietnam-era conscription lotteries	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	95	en_US
utslib.for	1402 Applied Economics	en_US
utslib.for	1403 Econometrics	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Economics Discipline
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Abstract:

Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect of army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records, tax returns, veterans' compensation records, and the Census facilitate a rich and precise analysis, identified by 53,000 complying conscripts. The estimated employment effect is -12 percentage points (95% CI: -13, -11) overall, -37 for those who served in Vietnam and 0 for those who served only in Australia. It emerged in the 1990s, mirrored by veterans' disability pension effects. These results contrast with those for the United States, possibly reflecting employment disincentives associated with Australia's veterans' compensation system. © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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