Spouses of active-duty service members face challenges in the civilian labor market compared with their peers in nonmilitary households because of deployments and frequent moves. The U.S. Department of Defense’s My Career Advancement Account Scholarship assists spouses in getting training for portable careers. RAND researchers found that the scholarship did increase employment among users for at least seven years after the program began.
Authors
Panis, Christina, Miller, Laura L., Trail, Thomas E., Thompson, Nathan, Knapp, David, Marrone, James V.
- Division
- RAND National Security Research Division Personnel, Readiness, and Health Program
- Pages
- 20
- Published in
- United States
- RAND Identifier
- RR-A2112-1
- RAND Type
- report
- Rights
- RAND Corporation
- Series
- Research Reports
- Source
- https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2112-1.html
