TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hirsch, Boris
AU  - Jahn, Elke J.
AU  - Zwick, Thomas
        TI  - Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover
        PY  - 2019/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12333
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12333
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - workplace diversity
KW  - co-worker similarity
KW  - workforce demography
KW  - voluntary turnover
        ER  -