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How do earnings change when reservists are activated? : a reconciliation of estimates derived from survey and administrative data / Francisco Martorell, Jacob Alex Klerman, David S. Loughran.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Martorell, Francisco, 1963-
- Series:
- Technical report (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wage surveys--United States.
- Wage surveys.
- United States--Armed Forces--Reserves--Pay, allowances, etc--Statistics.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Mobilization--Costs--Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 54 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2008.
- Summary:
- Among the many hardships of military activation is the possibility of losing earnings, and although some research points to such a loss, other research suggests that reservists in fact earn substantially more when they are activated. The authors examine earnings reports from the 2004 and 2005 Status of Forces Survey of Reserve Component Members (SOFS-R) and those from administrative data-the Social Security Administration and military pay records-to help reconcile these differing estimates. Broadly speaking, the administrative data indicate significant average earnings gains whereas the SOFS-R indicates significant average earnings losses. The authors propose several reasons for these opposite conclusions: different samples of reservists surveyed, the way earnings are defined, and the time period over which earnings comparisons are made. They also investigate several other possibilities, including reservists' misreporting or underreporting earnings, the effects of nonresponse bias, and errors in administrative data records.
- Contents:
- Introduction Data and Methods Decomposing differences in estimated earnings changes Analysis of nonresponse bias Conclusion Appendix A: Administrative data estimates of changes in reserve earnings attributable to activation Appendix B: Exact wording of 2004 and 2005 SOFS-R earnings questions Appendix C: Detailed analysis of differences in military earnings
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
- "National Defense Research Institute."
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