Ten Frequently Asked Questions About Veterans' Transitions: Results of a Decade of RAND Work on Veteran Life

Abstract

The transition from military service to the civilian world can be very challenging, particularly for young veterans with no prior civilian work experience and those with injuries or disabilities. As part of their duty to care for the men and women who have served the country in uniform-as well as to promote strong member recruitment in the future-the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seek to monitor and improve the education and employment opportunities and the health and well-being of military veterans and reservists. Over the past decade, RAND has proactively pursued a program of research addressing veterans' transitions to the civilian labor market. This document compiles RANDs body of work on this topic and highlights the breadth of topics RAND has studied. It distills more than a decades worth of research on many facets of veteran life into a set of ten questions and answers gleaned from this work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1013652

Entities

People

  • Christopher Guo
  • Julia Pollak
  • Melissa Bauman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Brain Injuries
  • Business Administration
  • Casualties
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Law
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Education
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Training
  • Students
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.