A Note On Congressional Military Pay Setting

Larry DeBoer () and B Brorsen

Public Finance Review, 1989, vol. 17, issue 1, 96-107

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1177/109114218901700105

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