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  -