Veterans’ Preference? Examining Whether Managers Who Are Veterans Reward Veteran and Non-Veteran Employees Differently

• In Event: Diversity in the Public Workforce

Brief Overview

We use federal personnel data on performance pay rewards to examine whether managers who are military veterans provide larger bonuses to employees who are also military veterans than to employees who are not military veterans.

Authors

• John D. Marvel, George Mason University

• Chris Birdsall, Boise State University