Estimating the Geographic Extent of Part-Time Labor Market: US Army Reserves
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Authors
Sohn, So Young
Thomas, George W.
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Marketing Research
Statistical Techniques
Statistical Techniques
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Date of Issue
1993
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1993
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Abstract
Local labor market supportability is becoming an increasingly important issue for the United States Army Reserves. As military bases close and Reserve units are consolidated at fewer Reserve centers, the appropriate reassignments of units to Reserve centers require accurate measures of the ability of local labor markets to support such consolidations. A two‐stage random effect model is applied to evaluate the geographical extent of the labor market for Army Reserve centers. In the first stage model, a lognormal distribution is used to describe the commuting distance behavior of the Reserve center members. In the second stage model, we estimate the mean of log transformed commute distance as a function of regional characteristics of the Reserve center. An iterative weighted stepwise selection method is used to find a set of characteristics that adequately predict variation of the mean commute distance over Reserve centers. The resulting model is used as inputs to location and market assessment models to assist the marketing decisions of the Army Recruiting Command.
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Operations Research (OR)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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United States Army Recruiting Command
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14 p.
Citation
Sohn, S.Y. and Thomas, G., “Estimating the Geographic Extent of Part-Time Labor Market: US Army Reserves,” Decision Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1993, pp. 479-492.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.