Learning Curves, Personal Characteristics, and Job Performance

Abstract

This research contribution uses data on the productivity of Naval Reserve recruiters to estimate the effects of on the job learning, experience, and individual characteristics of job performance. The econometric approach begins with the Poisson distribution whose mean is assumed to be a function of explanatory variables. Generalizations are specified to control for individual heterogeneity as well as over-dispersion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADB123050

Entities

People

  • Dean A. Follmann
  • James E. Grogan
  • Peter F. Kostiuk

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Active Duty
  • Data Science
  • Dispersions
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Equations
  • Heterogeneity
  • Information Science
  • Learning
  • Military Research
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Personnel
  • Navy
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics

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  • Theoretical Analysis.