Research for Personnel

This paper outlines two simple models that integrate accession and first-term retention policies. The first model describes the relation between optimal accession and first-term reenlistment bonus policies when marginal recruiting costs are constant. The second model is that marginal recruiting costs rise as more recruits are obtained.

This paper describes a procedure for constructing the cost of initial specialized skill training for enlisted graduates of a given quality type in a given rating.

An analysis of patterns of unauthorized absences and desertions in the Navy during the period FY 1979-FY 1981. The effects of rating and apprenticeship group, as well as personnel and unit characteristics, on absence patterns over time are also examined.

This paper analyzes the supply of nonprior service male high school graduates enlistments to the military services. While each service is considered, the primary focus is on Navy enlistment supply.