Job and Worker Turnover in German Establishments

Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments: The Role of Employers’ Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the relationship between job reallocation, worker reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more flexible wages are associated with less job reallocation due to demand shocks being absorbed by wage ra...

Worker turnover and job reallocation in Taiwanese manufacturing

Worker Performance and Voluntary Turnover in Worker Cooperatives

The management, economics, sociology, and psychology literatures describe a multitude of avenues through which organizations attempt to succeed. One of the most traveled of these is the management of human capital, which usually involves attempts to optimize the return on investments in the workforce. These returns are frequently examined in terms of employee job performance and voluntary turno...

Firm Heterogeneity and Worker Turnover

Previous empirical analyses of job mobility focus on worker rather than firm characteristics. This paper exploits a unique data set on enterprise employment. We describe sectoral differences in turnover rates and in the persistence of turnover. We also present evidence of persistent turnover differences at the level of the individual firms--a result that is expected if firms have managers with ...

Labour Turnover: Evidence from UK Establishments

This paper examines labour turnover using data from a survey of establishments in the UK conducted in 1990-91. Our work differs from most of the existing literature by using micro-level on establishments, whereas existing evidence uses micro-level data on individuals, or industry-level or aggregate data. The average turnover rate in our sample is 12.7% which is comparable to evidence from other...