Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Heather Antecol () and Deborah A. Cobb-Clark ()

No 1636, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening racial incidents or career-related discrimination. Racial harassment significantly increases job dissatisfaction irrespective of the form of harassment considered. Furthermore, threatening racial incidents and career-related discrimination heighten intentions to leave the military, though there is no significant effect of racially offensive behavior on the intended job change of active-duty personnel. Finally, our results point to the importance of accounting for unobserved individual- and job-specific heterogeneity when assessing the consequences of racial harassment. In particular, single-equation models result in estimated effects of racial harassment on job satisfaction and intended job change that are generally understated.

Keywords: job satisfaction; racial harassment; quits; military employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-06
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