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- Title
Birds, Birds, Birds: Co‐Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches.
- Authors
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
GERMANY; DIVERSITY in the workplace; BIRDS
- Publication
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 3, p690
- ISSN
0007-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjir.12509