New Estimates of the Effect of Unemployment on Enlisted Retention

Abstract

This paper provides new estimates of the effect of unemployment on enlisted retention. Unemployment is found to have a positive effect upon the reenlistment rate for seven of the nine rating groups studied, and a positive effect upon both the extension rate and the total retention rate for all nine rating groups. However, the payelasticities are three to five times as large as the unemployment elasticities, so that decreases in the unemployment rate may be offset by much smaller percentage increase in military pay. Keywords: Enlistment, Estimates, Logit model, Mathematical models, Personnel retention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA172661

Entities

People

  • Matthew S Goldberg

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Education
  • Elastic Properties
  • Health Care
  • Management Personnel
  • Manpower
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Retention
  • Recruiting
  • Reenlistment
  • Security
  • Students
  • Unemployment

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management