Recruiting Minorities: What Explains Recent Trends in the Army and Navy?

Autor/inn/en	Asch, Beth J.; Heaton, Paul; Savych, Bogdan
Institution	RAND National Defense Research Institute
Titel	Recruiting Minorities: What Explains Recent Trends in the Army and Navy?
Quelle	(2009), (118 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8330-4717-5
Schlagwörter	Armed Forces; Recruitment; Personnel Needs; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Youth; Whites; Disproportionate Representation; Employment Patterns; Iraq; Armed Forces Qualification Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Military; Militär; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Personnel requirement; Personalbedarf; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; White; Weißer; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Irak
Abstract	Since 2000, black representation among high-quality recruits in the Army has decreased, while Hispanic representation has increased; in the Navy, black representation has remained stable and Hispanic representation has increased. (Recruits are considered to be high-quality if they have graduated high school and score above average on the Armed Forces Qualification Test.) The decline in black enlistments is of concern both because black youth have traditionally been a key market segment for the Army and because Congress has expressed concern about the degree to which military enlistments proportionately reflect the population that the U.S. military defends. Asch, Heaton, and Savych examine military and civilian data to identify factors--such as differences among blacks, Hispanics, and whites in their responsiveness to various recruiting tools and their views on the war in Iraq--that explain these trends. The authors conclude with a discussion of which policies are likely to be most effective in increasing high-quality enlistments among blacks, Hispanics, and whites. A bibliography is included. (Contains 23 footnotes, 42 figures and 9 tables.) [This report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. For associated Research Brief, "Explaining Recent Army and Navy Minority Recruiting Trends," see ED506398.] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10