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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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RAND

Do Bonuses Affect Enlistment and Procurement? [14 June 2010]

By: Beth J. Asch, Paul Heaton, James Hosek, Francisco Martorell, Curtis Simon, John T. Warner

Research Brief

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9539/index1.html

or

http://rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2010/RAND_RB9539.pdf

Congress has questioned the scope and efficacy of enlistment and reenlistment bonuses, but Army high-quality recruiting would have been lower without them; they are more cost-effective than pay but less so than recruiters as a way to gain recruits.

and

FULL REPORT

Cash Incentives and Military Enlistment, Attrition, and Reenlistment [14 June 2010]

http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf

[full-text, 195 pages

The Department of Defense budget for enlistment and reenlistment bonuses increased greatly over the past decade, leading some to ask whether bonuses were the most cost-effective way to increase the supply of personnel to the armed forces.

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