Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service
Abstract
"We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the 'White Cohort') who were exempted from compulsory military service to men who were born on or shortly after this threshold date and hence faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage premium of those who served in the armed forces vanish when selection effects are taken into account." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Bauer, T., Bender, S., Paloyo, A. & Schmidt, C. (2009): Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service. (IAB-Discussion Paper 23/2009), Nürnberg, 34 p.
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- later released (possibly different) in: European Economic Review, Vol. 56, No. 4 (2012), S. 814-829
- "Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service , a regression-discontinuity approach" als: IZA discussion paper , 4535
- "Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service , a regression-discontinuity approach" als Ruhr economic papers , 141