Economics of the Military Draft

摘要: Excerpt from introduction: This paper investigates two important consequences of the present military draft system. They are distributive effects-the impact on distribution real output, and allocative costs - size that output. The effects result relatively low rate pay to draft-affected men -what we refer as implicit income tax. personnel system efficiency with which a given level resources is allocated among alternative uses.In analyzing system, standard for comparison necessary. For this have selected free-market, voluntary but in so doing do not intend suggest either only worthy consideration, or that, all things considered, it preferable existing Whether under any other conditions issue; rather, wish point out certain arrangements.' These stem directly several key features including: (1) compulsion serve; individual, if called, has no choice whether he serves. (2) nature selection procedure; long draft-age pool substantially exceeds requirements, rather arbitrary decisions must be made concerning eligibility, i.e., segments population will exempted rejected, selected. ...