Serving Away From Home: How Deployments Influence Reenlistment
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.
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Contents
Preface PDF
Figures PDF
Tables PDF
Summary PDF
Acknowledgments PDF
Abbreviations PDF
Chapter One
Introduction PDF
Chapter Two
Theoretical Framework and Empirical Models PDF
Chapter Three
Data and Measures of Deployment PDF
Chapter Four
Empirical Results From the Reenlistment Model PDF
Chapter Five
Empirical Results From the Promotion/Reenlistment Model PDF
Chapter Six
Closing Thoughts PDF
Appendix A
Deployment-Related Pay PDF
Appendix B
Accuracy of Deployment Measures PDF
Appendix C
Means and Standard Deviations PDF
Appendix D
Regression Results PDF
Appendix E
Glossary of Variables PDF
References PDF
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