scholarly journals The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huzeyfe Torun ◽  
Semih Tumen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Compulsory Military Service

Vocational Rehabilitation and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from World War I Veterans

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Ethan Schmick
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
World War I ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
World War ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Us Census ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article uses a linked sample of World War I Army veterans from the state of Missouri to study the impact of vocational rehabilitation on labor market outcomes for men wounded and disabled during the war. Veterans’ military service abstracts are linked to the 1940 US Census and a subset are linked to rehabilitation records. This creates a new dataset that contains information on military service, rehabilitation, and labor market outcomes. I find that 70 percent of veterans that were both wounded in action and disabled when discharged from the army participated in the rehabilitation program. These same veterans had significantly better labor market outcomes, which can be attributed to the rehabilitation program under certain assumptions.

scholarly journals Imprisonment and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Harding ◽  
Jeffrey D. Morenoff ◽  
Anh P. Nguyen ◽  
Shawn D. Bushway
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes

scholarly journals The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bentley MacLeod ◽  
Evan Riehl ◽  
Juan E. Saavedra ◽  
Miguel Urquiola
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Earnings Growth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Competitive Labor Market ◽  
Simple Definition

We explore how college reputation affects the “big sort,” the process by which students choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple definition of college reputation—graduates' mean admission scores—into a competitive labor market model. This generates a clear prediction: if employers use reputation to set wages, then the introduction of a new measure of individual skill will decrease the return to reputation. Administrative data and a natural experiment from the country of Colombia confirm this. Finally, we show that college reputation is positively correlated with graduates' earnings growth, suggesting that reputation matters beyond signaling individual skill. (JEL I23, I26, J24, J31)

scholarly journals Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation’s Labor Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-209
Author(s):  
Sarena Goodman ◽  
Adam Isen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Draft Lottery ◽  
Vietnam Draft ◽  
The Universe

We examine whether the considerable shock generated by the Vietnam draft lottery affected the next generation’s labor market. Using the universe of US federal tax returns, we link fathers from draft cohorts to their sons’ adult outcomes and find that sons of fathers randomly called by the draft have lower earnings and are more likely to volunteer for military service. Our results demonstrate that malleable aspects of a parent’s life course can influence children’s labor market outcomes and provide sound evidence that policies that only directly alter the circumstances of one generation can have important long-run effects on the next. (JEL J22, J31, J45)

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