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Maintaining a grade or age structure in a stochastic environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

D. J. Bartholomew
D. J. Bartholomew*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Abstract

Grade and age structures in manpower systems are often far from ideal. This fact raises the question of how the flows of people — and particularly the recruitment flow — should be controlled in order to attain and maintain a more desirable structure. The problem has received considerable attention from a deterministic point of view. This paper adopts a stochastic approach to the study of maintainability and shows, among other things, that the problem is more subtle than the deterministic analysis suggests.

Keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTIONSATTAINABILITYCONTROLGRADE DISTRIBUTIONMAINTAINABILITYMANPOWER PLANNINGMARKOV CHAINSSTOCHASTIC MODELS
Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 1 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1977 

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