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• Both current servicemembers and veterans earn more than demographically comparable civilians.
• Veterans make excellent employees, but many employers report having trouble locating and hiring veterans, and some have difficulty understanding how various military skills might match civilian job requirements.

• For-profit schools provide the flexibility and services that veterans need, but deceptive practices, high dropout rates, and lower post-graduation employment rates may diminish their effectiveness in some cases.

• Only half of those who sought mental health care received minimally adequate treatment, but there is evidence that the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on productivity and earnings may be smaller than previously thought.

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, the RAND Corporation has proactively pursued a program of research addressing veterans' transitions to the civilian labor market. This document compiles RAND's body of work on this topic and highlights the breadth of topics RAND has studied. It distills more than a decade's 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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