The effect of moving away from home on employee retention: Evidence among U.S. army soldiers

Susan Carter and Ryan D. Swisher

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, vol. 85, issue C

Abstract: We study the effect of an employee moving away from home for their job on short-term retention with the firm. Our context is soldiers in the U.S. Army who are stationed to their first post based on the needs of the Army rather than their preferences. We find that a soldier stationed within driving distance of home is around 4 percent more likely to voluntarily separate from the Army relative to someone who is stationed further from home.

Keywords: Migration; Firm retention; Labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J0 J28 J29 J63 R2 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103579

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