TY  - JOUR
A1  - Geyer, Johannes
A1  - Haan, Peter
A1  - Lorenz, Svenja
A1  - Zwick, Thomas
A1  - Bruns, Mona
T1  - Role of labor demand in the labor market effects of a pension reform
JF  - Industrial Relations
N2  - This paper shows that labor demand plays an important role in the labor market reactions to a pension reform in Germany. Employers with a high share of older worker inflow compared with their younger worker inflow, employers in sectors with few investments in research and development, and employers in sectors with a high share of collective bargaining agreements allow their employees to stay employed longer after the reform. These employers offer their older employees partial retirement instead of forcing them into unemployment before early retirement because the older employees incur low substitution costs and high dismissal costs.
KW  - pension reform
KW  - labor demand
KW  - labor market
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-259446
VL  - 61
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hirsch, Boris
A1  - Jahn, Elke J.
A1  - Zwick, Thomas
T1  - Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches
JF  - British Journal of Industrial Relations
N2  - 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.
KW  - workplace
KW  - demographics
KW  - co-worker similarity
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208666
VL  - 58
IS  - 3
ER  -