The Effects of Bonuses on Army Reserve Reenlistments. An Empirical Bayes Approach

Abstract

The President's Sixth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation placed special emphasis on reserve compensation. This paper was written in support of the Sixth QRMC. Empirical Bayes estimation techniques have been especially useful in applications where existing data bases have been small or incomplete. An empirical Bayes analysis of Army Reserve reenlistment data showed that bonuses increased committed man-years of service and that 6-year bonuses are most cost-effective than 3-year bonuses. Keywords: Reserves; Economics; Earnings; Pay; Benefits; Recruiting; Retention; Reenlistments; Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation(QRMC); National guard; Compensation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188770

Entities

People

  • Charles Dale

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Compensation
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • National Guard
  • Operations Research
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Recruiting
  • Reenlistment
  • Social Sciences

Readers

  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Statistical inference.