Racial harassment, job satisfaction, and intentions to remain in the military
By: by Heather Antecol, Deborah Cobb-Clark.
Contributors: Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1636; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1636
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Race discrimination -- United States.; Job satisfaction -- United States.; United States -- Armed Forces -- Minorities.
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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