TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brown,Charles
TI  - The Quality Dimension in Army Retention
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3337
PY  - 1990
Y2  - April 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3337
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3337.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Charles C. Brown
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1220
Tel: 734/763-3036
Fax: 734/647-1186
E-Mail: charlieb@umich.edu
AB  - While there has been a great deal of research on the characteristics of those who enter the U.S. Armed Forces, there has been little work which asks whether those who re-enlist are those who were above- or below-average performers. Despite the relatively "egalitarian" (little pay for performance) structure of military compensation, I find that those who do better on tests of proficiency in their military occupation are more likely to re-enlist than those who do worse, and this difference is not primarily due to the Army's unwillingness to allow its worse performers to re-enlist. In contrast, those with the best scores on the general ability test given prior to enlistment are less likely to re-enlist.
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