An Exploratory Study of Intergenerational Occupational Succession in the Navy.
Abstract
This report explores the implications for military personnel planning and policies of the tendency toward intergenerational occupational inheritance; that is, the probability that children will follow occupations similar to those of their parents. Our specific interest is in the prevalence of children of career military personnel ('juniors') in the current and future Navy, both for the implications their numbers may have for problems of quantitative manpower supply as well as for qualitative aspects of force composition. The limited objectives of the present exploratory effort were to: (1) conceptualize the issues, (2) ascertain the availability of pertinent data, (3) evaluate the dimensions of succession phenomena and their possible significance for concerns of the Navy, and, (4) suggest important research and routine data collection. The pool of juniors will remain a consequential source of new recruits for most of the remainder of the Century, although there will be some decline from a current peak period. Juniors have comprised far larger proportions of recent entry cohorts than those of any past period and should contribute significantly to greater re-enlistment rates in the immediate future.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA074710
Entities
People
- Albert D. Biderman
- Barbara Haley