Showing posts with label Armed Forces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armed Forces. Show all posts
Friday, March 17, 2023

Talent management in the Marine Corps--lateral entry?

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"Talent management" is making inroads in the armed forces.  One anomaly of military service is that almost all of its personnel en...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Job swaps in the Air Force

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  Here's the story, from Air and Space Forces Magazine: Bass Announces Changes to Assignment Policies—Including Job Swaps Sept. 21, 202...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

The labor market that is the United States Marine Corps

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  Armed forces around the world have some unique labor force problems, since by and large they do no lateral hiring...every senior officer w...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

Economic warfare: how to staff it?

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  The Financial Times has a story about how the UK Ministry of Defense runs an economic warfare unit, which needs to be staffed differently ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

The export market for fighter planes

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  Here's an article from a recent issue of Foreign Affairs, about why China's export market for fighter jets is not taking off, even...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Redesigning the US Army's Branching Process, by Kyle Greenberg, Parag A. Pathak & Tayfun Sönmez,

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  Here's a new NBER working paper that marks a significant step forward in matching soldiers to positions. Mechanism Design meets Priori...
Monday, December 7, 2020

Officer assignment in the U.S. Army

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In a recent post I discussed the NAS report on the military labor force, focusing on the new Talent Marketplaces, and some of the difficul...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

The labor market that is the military: a report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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  I recently served as a member of a National Academies committee on the issues facing the Air Force in managing its human capital, i.e. its...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Job market technology is diffusing slowly through the armed forces

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Here's a story from the Army Times, about trying to incorporate enlisted soldiers' preferences into their job assignments. (I hope ...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

The labor force that is the Army

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The Army Times has this story: Choose your job: Army offers soldiers career agency to bolster retention Kyle Rempfer "Assignment ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Cadet branch matching satisfies traditional assumptions: Ravi Jagadeesan in AEJ: Micro

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Cadet-Branch Matching in a Kelso-Crawford Economy By Ravi Jagadeesan American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2019, 11(3): 191–224https...