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  1. Can compulsory military service increase civilian wages?
    evidence from the peacetime draft in Portugal
    Author: Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute
    Published: 2011

    "Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for... more

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    "Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were inducted at a relatively late age (21), allowing us to use pre-conscription wages to control for ability differences between conscripts and non-conscripts. We find that the average impact of military service for men who were working prior to age 21 is close to zero throughout the period from 2 to 20 years after their service. These small average effects arise from a significant 4-5 percentage point impact for men with only primary education, coupled with a zero-effect for men with higher education. The positive impacts for less-educated men suggest that mandatory service can be a valuable experience for those who might otherwise spend their careers in low-level jobs"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: NBER working paper series ; 17694
    Subjects: Wehrdienst; Lohnstruktur; Einkommen; Portugal
    Scope: 28, [28] S., graph. Darst.
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  2. Can compulsory military service raise civilian wages?
    evidence from the peacetime draft in Portugal
    Author: Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to the low value of military experience. More recent studies have found a mixed pattern of effects, with both negative (the Netherlands) and positive (in Sweden) earnings impacts. Even among Vietnam era draftees, Angrist and Chen (2011) find that the net effect on earnings by age 50 is close to zero. We provide new evidence on the long-term impacts of peacetime conscription in a "low education" labor market, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were inducted at a relatively late age (21), allowing us to use pre- conscription wages as a control for potential ability differences between conscripts and non- conscripts. Our estimates of the average impact of military service for men who had entered the labor market by age 21 are slightly positive (1-2 percent) but not significantly different from zero throughout the period from 2 to 20 years after their service. These small average effects arise from a significantly positive later-life impact for men with only primary education, coupled with a zero-effect for men with higher education. The positive impacts for less-educated men suggest that mandatory service can be a valuable experience for poorly-educated men who might otherwise spend their careers in low-level jobs. -- military conscription ; longitudinal earnings ; quasi-differences ; sensitivity analysis

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/51871
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5915
    Subjects: Wehrdienst; Lohnstruktur; Einkommen; Portugal
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 25 S., 584,53 KB), graph. Darst.