Arbeitspapier
Birds, birds, birds: Co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover
We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves 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 voluntary turnover whereas workplace diversity is of limited importance. In line with conventional wisdom, which has that birds of one feather flock together, our results suggest that workers prefer having co-workers of their kind and place less value on diverse workplaces.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 387
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Demographic Economics: Other
- Subject
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workforce demography
co-worker similarity
workplace diversity
voluntary turnover
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hirsch, Boris
Jahn, Elke J.
Zwick, Thomas
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
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Lüneburg
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hirsch, Boris
- Jahn, Elke J.
- Zwick, Thomas
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2019