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Serving away from home : how deployments influence reenlistment

Title
Serving away from home : how deployments influence reenlistment / James Hosek, Mark Totten.
Author
Hosek, James R.
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Totten, Mark, 1969-
  • United States. Department of Defense.
Description
xxiv, 128 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
How does deployment affect reenlistment? The authors look at this issue in wake of the high rate of military deployment throughout the 1990s and with the prospect that deployment will rise even more in the coming years. The research uses two models to analyze deployment and reenlistment: one focusing on the direct effect of deployment indicators on reenlistment, and the other looking at both the direct effect of deployment and its indirect effect through the rate of promotion. The authors found that reenlistment was higher among members who deployed compared with those who did not, and that sizeable increases in deployments, all hostile, appeared unlikely to reduce reenlistment. The research suggests that past deployment influences current reenlistment behavior because it enables members to learn about their preferences for deployment and about its frequency and duration, which may revise members' previously held, more-naive expectations.
Uniform Title
MR (Series) ; MR-1594-OSD.
Subject
  • Deployment
  • Personnel management
  • Military personnel
  • Recruiting
  • Reenlistment
  • Military Forces (U.S.)
  • Armed Forces > Foreign service
  • Recruiting and enlistment
  • United States > Armed Forces > Recruiting, enlistment, etc
  • United States > Armed Forces > Foreign service
  • United States
Note
  • "MR-1594-OSD." -- P. [4] of cover.
  • "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
  • "National Defense Research Institute."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-128).
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Theoretical Framework and Empirical Models -- Ch. 3. Data and Measures of Deployment -- Ch. 4. Empirical Results from the Reenlistment Model -- Ch. 5. Empirical Results from the Promotion/Reenlistment Model -- Ch. 6. Closing Thoughts -- App. A. Deployment-Related Pay -- App. B. Accuracy of Deployment Measures.
ISBN
  • 0833032151
  • 9780833032157
LCCN
2002068216
OCLC
  • ocm50323057
  • 50323057
  • SCSB-1273403
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library