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Author: Mehay, Stephen L.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Mehay, Stephen L.
Hirsch, Barry T.
The Postmilitary Earnings of Female Veterans
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 35,2 (April 1996): 197-217.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1996.tb00402.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Discrimination, Sex; Military Personnel; Military Service; Racial Differences; Transfers, Skill; Veterans; Women's Roles

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An investigation is conducted of the civilian labor market performance of women veterans. Using standard data sets and a special survey of reservists, female veterans are found to have better earnings endowments than non-veterans. Although female veterans have higher unadjusted earnings than non-veterans, a wage disadvantage is found for white but not non-white veterans following control for measured and unmeasured skills. Low returns to military service may result from historically limited military opportunities for women and difficulty in transferring skills to civilian jobs. (ABI/Inform)
Bibliography Citation
Mehay, Stephen L. and Barry T. Hirsch. "The Postmilitary Earnings of Female Veterans." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 35,2 (April 1996): 197-217.
2. Mehay, Stephen L.
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo
Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?
NBER Working Paper No. 7383, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1999.
Also: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w7383.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Drug Use; Military Service; Punishment, Criminal; Substance Use

Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating that they have any effect on drug use by employees. This paper analyzes the deterrence effect of a particularly aggressive workplace drug-testing policy implemented by the military in 1981. The military's policy incorporates random drug testing of current employees and zero tolerance. Using data from various years of the Department of Defense's Worldwide Survey of Health Related Behaviors and the NHSDA, we find illicit drug prevalence rates among military personnel are significantly lower than civilian rates in years after the implementation of the program but not before, suggesting a sizeable deterrence effect. These basic findings are replicated with data from the NLSY. The NLSY are also used to explore sensitivity of the deterrence effect to the probability of detection and severity of punishment, which varied across military branches during the first few years of the program's implementation.
Bibliography Citation
Mehay, Stephen L. and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula. "Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?" NBER Working Paper No. 7383, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1999.