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Veteran status, disability rating, and public sector employment
Author(s) -
Winters John V.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.3648
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , private sector , government (linguistics) , public sector , state (computer science) , american community survey , local government , state government , demographic economics , business , gerontology , political science , economic growth , medicine , public administration , economics , environmental health , population , census , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , law
This paper used microdata from the 2013–2015 American Community Survey to examine differences in federal government, state and local government, private sector, and self‐employment among employed veterans and nonveterans. The U.S. federal and state governments have hiring preferences to benefit veterans, especially disabled veterans. Other factors may also push veterans toward public sector employment. I found that veteran status substantially increased the likelihood of federal employment, with the largest magnitudes for severely disabled veterans. Differences in state and local government employment were modest and exhibited heterogeneity by disability severity.