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Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience

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  • Alair MacLean
  • Meredith Kleykamp

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Previous researchers have evaluated how the dramatic rise in income inequality has affected the members of various groups of workers, such as those defined by gender, union status, and educational attainment. Yet apparently no researchers have yet explored how this increase may have affected people grouped by previous military service. This chapter addresses this gap by assessing trends in wage inequality between male veterans and nonveterans, and among veterans between 1979 and 2010. The findings suggest that similar to other groups, veterans have experienced decreased between-group inequality and increased within-group inequality and that these changes may stem not just from period but also from cohort effects.

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  • Alair MacLean & Meredith Kleykamp, 2016. "Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 663(1), pages 99-116, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:663:y:2016:i:1:p:99-116
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716215596964
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