Racial harassment, job satisfaction and intentions to remain in the military

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1636

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
• Subject: job satisfaction , racial harassment ; quits ; military employment ; Arbeitszufriedenheit ; Militär ; Ethnische Diskriminierung ; Erwerbsverlauf ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Antecol, Heather ; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33527
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET