“…Furthermore, there exists a substantial volume of empirical work looking into the correlation and interaction between veteran status and observed differences in both the earnings and employment status of the male population. This work can be broadly categorized as focusing either on testing the hypothesis that military service and training are factors contributing to the stock of human capital for veterans (Cohen, Segal and Temme, 1992;Goldberg and Warner, 1986;Berger and Hirsch, 1983;Cooper, 1981;Danzon, 1980;DeTray, 1982;Fredland and Little, 1979;Norrblum, 1977) or testing the hypothesis that military service acts as a bridge so that veterans have access to more favorable labor market conditions after discharge from the military (Xie, 1992;Schwartz, 1986;Berger and Hirsch, 1985;Fredland and Little, 1983). From any of these past investigations, irrespec-tive of the focus, the resulting outcome looked at either veteran and non-veteran differences, black-white veteran differences or veterans' differences based upon the time period of active duty military service.…”