Artikel

Birds, Birds, Birds: Co‐Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches

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
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: British Journal of Industrial Relations ; ISSN: 1467-8543 ; Volume: 58 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 690-718 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hirsch, Boris
Jahn, Elke J.
Zwick, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Wiley
(where)
Hoboken, NJ
(when)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1111/bjir.12509
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  • Hirsch, Boris
  • Jahn, Elke J.
  • Zwick, Thomas
  • Wiley

Time of origin

  • 2019

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