Recruiting Goals, Regime Shifts, and the Supply of Labor to the Army.

Abstract

This paper extends the existing literature on military-labor supply in three ways. First, using CPS data, it develops a more accurate estimate of the alternative wage faced by young men. Second, it endogenizes the high-quality goal faced by recruiters. As the United States Army Recruiting Command became increasingly better at setting this goal during the 1980's, the assumption that the goal was exogenous to the recruiting process became increasingly suspect. This paper presents evidence that the goal is indeed endogenous. Finally, it presents estimates based on a switching simultaneous- equations statistical specification that allows behavior to vary across recruiting environments to reflect the asymmetric incentives faced by recruiters. The findings show that the estimates of the parameters with the greatest policy content are sensitive to each of these specification issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1993
Accession Number
ADA361132

Entities

People

  • J. K. Berner
  • Thomas V. Daula

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Labor Markets
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Operations Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Recruiting
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

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