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A Fair and Equitable Method of Recruitment? Conscription by Ballot into the Australian Army during the Vietnam War
Ville, Simon; Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2011
Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War drew on the selective conscription of additional manpower through 16 biannual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203495
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Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans' Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 87-97
Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect of army service on employment … percentage points (95% CI: −13, −11) overall, −37 for those who served in Vietnam and 0 for those who served only in Australia … United States, possibly reflecting employment disincentives associated with Australia's veterans' compensation system. © 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009990
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Are Low Skill Public Sector Workers Really Overpaid? A Quasi-Differenced Panel Data Analysis
Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2011
Public-private sectoral wage differentials have been studied extensively using quantile regression techniques. These typically find large public sector premiums at the bottom of the wage distribution. This may imply that low skill workers are ‘overpaid’, prompting concerns over efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371679
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A Fair and Equitable Method of Recruitment? Conscription by Ballot into the Australian Army during the Vietnam War
Ville, Simon; Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2011
Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War drew on the selective conscription of additional manpower through 16 biannual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371686
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Order Effects in Batteries of Questions
Siminski, Peter - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 42 (2008) 4, pp. 477-490
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391064
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Long-Run Mortality Effects of Vietnam-Era Army Service: Evidence from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2010
We estimate the effect of Vietnam era Army service on mortality, exploiting Australia’s conscription lotteries for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727729
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Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans’ Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2010
Exploiting the Australian National Service lotteries of 1965-72, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764547
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I Was Only Nineteen, 45 Years Ago: What Can we Learn from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries?
Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2012
The Australian conscription lotteries of 1965-1972 are a unique and underutilised resource for studying the effects of army service and veterans’ programs. Drawing on many data sources and 25 years of related US literature, we present a comprehensive analysis of this natural experiment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685796
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Does the Military Train Men to be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon; Paull, Alexander - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2013
prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia’s Vietnam …-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court data from Australia’s three largest states, we seek to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765441
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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A.; Siminski, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183123