@article{HirschJahnZwick2020,
  author    = {Hirsch, Boris and Jahn, Elke J. and Zwick, Thomas},
  title     = {Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches},
  series = {British Journal of Industrial Relations},
  volume    = {58},
  journal   = {British Journal of Industrial Relations},
  number    = {3},
  doi       = {10.1111/bjir.12509},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208666},
  pages     = {690-718},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age and tenure dimensions affects job switches. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job turnover rate that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large manufacturing plants in Germany during 1975-2016, we find that larger co-worker similarity in all five dimensions substantially depresses job-to-job moves, whereas workplace diversity is of limited importance. In line with conventional wisdom, which has that birds of a feather flock together, our interpretation of the results is that workers prefer having co-workers of their kind and place less value on diverse workplaces.},
  language  = {en}
}