Research for Personnel Retention

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Models of Accession and Retention
August 1, 1983
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.
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An Empirical Analysis of Pay and Navy Enlisted Retention in the AVF: Preliminary Results
August 1, 1983
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between pay and retention during the All Volunteer Force era. The report also derives estimates of the relationship between pay at one decision point and retention at future decision points.
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A COMPARISON OF THE PROPHET AND ACOL FORCE PROJECTION MODELS
August 1, 1983
This paper compares the career force projections of the PROPHET and the ACOL models to actual historical experience over the period FY78-FY80.
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BALANCING ACCESSION AND RETENTION: THE AGGREGATE MODEL
August 1, 1983
The model developed for this study is designed to help select the recruit assignment, accession and reenlistment bonus policies that minimize the total cost of meeting LOS-5 requirements.
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Naval Manpower Research in the 1980's
July 1, 1983
A report of a two day conference at the Center for Naval Analyses, designed to suggest promising lines of research to help the Navy cope with the manpower problems of the mid-to-late 1980s.
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BALANCING ACCESSION AND RETENTION: COST AND PRODUCTIVITY TRADEOFFS
May 1, 1983
This paper uses a rating-specific model that incorporates both cost and productivity data to find the most efficient balance of accession and retention.
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Balancing Accession and Retention (Final Report of Navy Comprehensive Compensation Study)
May 1, 1983
Recruiting, training, and reenlistment bonus costs are calculated for recruits with 4-year enlistments in 28 rating groups. A computer simulation model is developed to minimize these costs while meeting manpower requirements.
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The Military's Monopsony Power
January 1, 1983
This paper examines the labor market behavior of the combined military services by developing linkage between military and civilian wages.
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ESTIMATION OF THE PERSONAL DISCOUNT RATE: EVIDENCE FROM MILITARY REENLISTMENT DECISIONS
November 1, 1982
This paper estimates the differential impact of lump-sum and installment bonuses and derives the implied discount rate from these estimates.
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A User's Manual for Retention Goal Calculations
August 1, 1982
This report is a user's manual for a set of programs used to calculate Marine Corps retention goals for individual commands, given overall Marine Corps retention goals. The programs allow adjustments to differentiate between usual and early reenlistments and to account for differences in the situations of individual commands. Current goals consider commands' occupational field compositions; programs are also provided for the case in which occupational fields are not considered.
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