High Unemployment and the Armed Forces: The Costs and Benefits of Recruiting Military Personnel in Norway

Lindgren, Petter Y.; Presterud, Ane Ofstad

doi:10.1080/10242694.2021.2008190

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“…Gottschall & Guérin, 2021; Elgmark Andersson et al., 2017). Modern military organizations, and in particular small and technologically advanced militaries such as the Norwegian Armed Forces, rely on highly qualified personnel not easily replaced (Asoni et al., 2022; Lindgren & Ofstad Presterud, 2021). Soldiers and officers are usually deployed to war zones several times throughout their career and may spend their entire working life accruing competence and thus value for the military organization.…”

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Differences in resilience profiles between military veterans and the general population: An exploratory latent profile analysis using the HUNT‐4 survey

Nordstrand,

Bøe,

Hjemdal

et al. 2023

Stress and Health

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Using latent profile analyses, the current work investigated levels of adverse childhood experiences, symptoms of anxiety and depression and 3 dimensions of relational promotive factors) to identify resilience profiles in a large general population sample (N = 161,622, mean age = 53.02; SD = 17.80; 56.1% females). We then used the same method to identify the resilience profiles of military veterans (N = 386, mean age = 43.47; SD = 10.08; 9.8% females), all of whom had served in Afghanistan. A four‐profile‐solution was the best fitting for the general population (High resilient 30%, Moderate resilient 13%, Low resilient 53%, Work/social‐based resilience 4%), while a three‐profile‐solution had the best fit in the veteran cohort (Family‐based resilience 28%, Work/social‐based resilience 62%, Hardy loners 10%). To ground the identified profiles in occupational function, we also checked how they predicted reports of sleep difficulties, job demand and job control. Despite both samples inhabiting a geographic region known for high socioeconomic similarity among residents, we found marked differences in profile‐solutions between the military veterans and the general population. Our findings suggests that resilience profiles are highly influenced by cohort characteristics and the specific resources needed to manage a given stressor load. Accordingly, the generalisability of specific protective factors may be low across distinct cohorts, and reliable findings need to be obtained in specific populations as defined by stressor context, sample characteristics, and relevant outcomes.

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Differences in resilience profiles between military veterans and the general population: An exploratory latent profile analysis using the HUNT‐4 survey

Nordstrand,

Bøe,

Hjemdal

et al. 2023

Stress and Health

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How population aging impacts the perception of national security and military spending

Shi

2024

SN Soc Sci

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In a multipolar world order, the demographic shift resulting from rapid population aging is affecting the fundamental unit of national power—the population—which, in turn, can influence a state’s perception of national security. This article examines the relationship between population aging and national security within the framework of “geriatric peace” by Haas (Int Secur 32(1):112–147, 2007). Utilizing panel data from 150 countries between 1992 and 2021, this study reveals two key findings. First, population aging leads to a relative increase in the priority given to social security over national security, resulting in a crowding-out effect on military spending. Second, the crowding-out effect of population aging on military spending is more pronounced in older countries compared to younger ones. To address potential endogeneity, this study employs instrumental variables (IV) estimation, treating population aging as an independent variable rather than a conditional one.

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Human resource management in the armed forces: An investigation into the monetary incentive systems for military personnel

Lindgren,

Presterud,

Einarsdottir

2024

EPSJ

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How do the armed forces pay and compensate military personnel? In this article, this question is addressed by investigating the monetary incentive systems in place in the armed forces in twelve NATO and NATO-partner countries. The primary objective is to understand how the armed forces, in a variety of advanced countries, structure their compensation and personnel policies. The countries’ monetary incentive systems are analyzed and compared using a Request for Information distributed by the Norwegian Ministry of Defence to NATO and NATO-partner countries. The secondary objective is to motivate the research community in the nexus between personnel economics and defense economics to study monetary incentives in the armed forces in a cross-national perspective. There is great potential to learn from the experiences of compensation policies in other armed forces.

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High Unemployment and the Armed Forces: The Costs and Benefits of Recruiting Military Personnel in Norway

Cited by 3 publications

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Differences in resilience profiles between military veterans and the general population: An exploratory latent profile analysis using the HUNT‐4 survey

Differences in resilience profiles between military veterans and the general population: An exploratory latent profile analysis using the HUNT‐4 survey

How population aging impacts the perception of national security and military spending

Human resource management in the armed forces: An investigation into the monetary incentive systems for military personnel

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