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Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208666
- 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 thatWe 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.…
Author: | Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Thomas ZwickORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208666 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | British Journal of Industrial Relations |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Volume: | 58 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pagenumber: | 690-718 |
Source: | British Journal of Industrial Relations 2020, 58(3), 690-718. DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12509 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12509 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 65 Management, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten |
Tag: | co-worker similarity; demographics; workplace |
Release Date: | 2020/09/22 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |