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The effects of mid-career military enlistment on civilian career prospects: evidence from the Australian banking industry during World War II

The effects of mid-career military enlistment on civilian career prospects: evidence from the... This paper uses personnel records of employees from an Australian bank to analyse the labour market consequences of career interruptions due to voluntary military service during the Second World War. The records contain the employees’ career position and pay histories, and pre-war outcomes are used to control for selection bias caused by non-random enlistment. It is shown that, despite losing human capital during the War, upon their return veterans did not face a wage penalty relative to non-volunteers. Finally, evidence from non-wage outcomes suggests that the absence of a wage penalty was a form of positive discrimination by the Bank. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cliometrica Springer Journals

The effects of mid-career military enlistment on civilian career prospects: evidence from the Australian banking industry during World War II

Seltzer, Andrew
Cliometrica , Volume 1 (3) – Mar 31, 2007
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 by Springer-Verlag
Subject
Economics; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; History, general; Econometrics; History of Economic Thought/Methodology; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance
ISSN
1863-2505
eISSN
1863-2513
DOI
10.1007/s11698-007-0011-7
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Abstract

This paper uses personnel records of employees from an Australian bank to analyse the labour market consequences of career interruptions due to voluntary military service during the Second World War. The records contain the employees’ career position and pay histories, and pre-war outcomes are used to control for selection bias caused by non-random enlistment. It is shown that, despite losing human capital during the War, upon their return veterans did not face a wage penalty relative to non-volunteers. Finally, evidence from non-wage outcomes suggests that the absence of a wage penalty was a form of positive discrimination by the Bank.

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Cliometrica – Springer Journals

Published: Mar 31, 2007

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