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Title: Enlistment During the Vietnam Era and the 'Representation' Issue of the All- Volunteer Force
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Shields, Patricia M. |
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Enlistment During the Vietnam Era and the 'Representation' Issue of the All- Volunteer Force Armed Forces and Society 7,1 (Fall 1980): 133-151. Also: http://afs.sagepub.com/content/7/1/133.full.pdf+html Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society Keyword(s): Children; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; I.Q.; Military Enlistment; Schooling; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unemployment; Vietnam War Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This research represents an attempt to study enlistment in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era. For the first time enlistment is compared by race using panel data. On the whole, white enlistment seems responsive to institutional factors, civilian wages, the local unemployment rate, and draft pressure. The rate of black enlistment seems to respond to geographic region of residence, draft pressure, socioeconomic status, and mental ability. The results suggest that blacks tend to choose the armed forces to escape the draft and (at least temporarily) as a substitute for the civilian labor market. |
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Shields, Patricia M. "Enlistment During the Vietnam Era and the 'Representation' Issue of the All- Volunteer Force." Armed Forces and Society 7,1 (Fall 1980): 133-151.
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