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A Note On Congressional Military Pay Setting

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  • Larry DeBoer

    (Purdue University)

  • B. Wade Brorsen

    (Purdue University)

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To maintain an all-volunteer force, military pay levels must be high enough to attract a sufficient quantity and quality of volunteers. Congress's commitment to maintaining such pay levels has been questioned. In this article we test a model of congressional military pay setting for the all-volunteer period, 1974- 1987 and find that Congress responds to decreases in the percentage of high-quality enlistments by increasing real military pay. Pay is not adjusted to completely offset expected inflation, however.

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  • Larry DeBoer & B. Wade Brorsen, 1989. "A Note On Congressional Military Pay Setting," Public Finance Review, , vol. 17(1), pages 96-107, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:17:y:1989:i:1:p:96-107
    DOI: 10.1177/109114218901700105
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