The composition, wealth and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health … those 51 to 56 in 1992, veterans were better educated, healthier, wealthier, and more likely to be working than nonveterans …. By the 2010 cohort, 51 to 56 year old veterans had lost their educational advantage over nonveterans, were less healthy …

benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a …The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one … in five military veterans in the US and its annual expenditures exceed $60 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC …

We explore trends over time in the labor force participation of veterans and non-veterans and investigate whether these … patterns are consistent with a rising role for the Veterans' Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program, which pays benefits … to veterans with service-connected disabilities and has grown rapidly since 2000. Using 35 years of March CPS data, we …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … to demonstrate sex-biased hiring. A change in the way symphony orchestras recruit musicians provides an unusual way to … test for sex-biased hiring. To overcome possible biases in hiring, most orchestras revised their audition policies in the …

We explore the effects of disability discrimination laws on hiring of older workers. A concern with anti-discrimination … discrimination laws – raising the cost of employment because of the need to accommodate disabled workers. Moreover, disability … evidence that stronger disability discrimination laws lower the hiring of non-disabled older workers. We similarly find no …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …

age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …Supply-side Social Security reforms intended to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals … may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …

examining home loan benefits granted under the World War II and Korean War GI Bills. The impact of veterans' housing benefits on … home ownership is positive for young men, and declines with age. Veterans' benefits increased aggregate home ownership …

Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section of living veteran cohorts about deployment to OEF/OIF and combat … returning OEF/OIF veterans may be relatively small, but the effects of combat exposure on self-reported health and other …. These results are consistent with a veterans compensation system that replaces lost earnings but does not necessarily …