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Author: Idson, Todd L.
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Employer Size and Labor Turnover Discussion Paper No. 673, Department of Economics, Columbia University, November 1993. Also: http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/bitstream/10022/AC:P:15565/1/econ_9394_673.pdf Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Department of Economics, Columbia University Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Firm Size; Job Tenure; Job Turnover; Quality of Employment Survey (QES); Training, On-the-Job; Unions; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the causes of higher tenure, and lower turnover, for workers at large plants or firms. The primary hypothesis investigated is that long-term employment relationships in large plants and firms stem from (1) the greater capacity of large employers to provide job opportunities within the enterprise and (2) the lower probability of business failure facing large producers. In addition to directly lowering turnover, these effects on average employment duration act to raise the expected returns from on-the-job training, resulting in higher levels of on-the-job training that in turn inhibit turnover. Furthermore, in order to protect these training investments, remuneration is characterized by mobility inhibiting wage premia and fringe benefits, and firms attempt to hire employees with lower mobility tendencies - both practices act to further reduce mobility. In addition to empirically evaluating the above view of the manner in which size of employer influences mobility outcomes, three additional factors are investigated that may account for the link between size and mobility, (1) working conditions, (2) monitoring difficulties, and (3) union organization threats. |
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Idson, Todd L. "Employer Size and Labor Turnover." Discussion Paper No. 673, Department of Economics, Columbia University, November 1993. |
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Employer Size and Turnover Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Miami, 1990 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Miami Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Job Tenure; Job Turnover; Layoffs; Mobility; Quality of Employment Survey (QES); Unions; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the causes of lower (higher) levels of turnover (tenure) among workers employed by large employers. Four distinct data sets, the Current Population Surveys, the Quality of Employment Survey Panel, the Employment Opportunities Pilot Project, and the NLS of Young Men, are employed to document the structure of the relationship between size of employer and labor mobility, and to evaluate seven different hypotheses that may account for these size differentials. |
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Bibliography Citation
Idson, Todd L. "Employer Size and Turnover." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Miami, 1990. |