Birds, birds, birds: Co-worker similarity, workplace diversity and job switches
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In: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 58, No. 3, 01.09.2020, p. 690-718.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Birds, birds, birds
T2 - Co-worker similarity, workplace diversity and job switches
AU - Hirsch, Boris
AU - Jahn, Elke J.
AU - Zwick, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. British Journal of Industrial Relations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
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.
AB - 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 - Economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076104626&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/bjir.12509
DO - 10.1111/bjir.12509
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 58
SP - 690
EP - 718
JO - British Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - British Journal of Industrial Relations
SN - 0007-1080
IS - 3
ER -