Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effect of employee involvement in the workplace on job satisfaction for millennial workers in Colombia. Design/methodology/approach Data were obtained from a sample of 2103 millennial employees working in 11 companies of different sectors located in the five main cities of Colombia. Ordered probit models were estimated to study the effect of employee involvement on job satisfaction, in general, and how different forms of participative decision making in the workplace produce different impacts on individual satisfaction with objective and intrinsic aspects of the job, in particular. Findings The empirical results show that, for millennial workers, there is a positive link between employee involvement and job satisfaction. Moreover, there is a higher positive impact on job satisfaction when millennial workers participate in decisions on general aspects of the company than when they participate in specific decisions such as those concerning teamwork or main tasks at work. Another interesting result is that millennial workers attach high importance to intrinsic aspects of their jobs (such as the possibility to use their knowledge in the work), which may improve their satisfaction in a higher participative environment. Research limitations/implications The results can present bias due to the use of self-report data from millennial workers. Another potential limitation is the cross-sectional nature of the data, which does not control for unobserved individual effects. The study may be extended to other developing countries to help identify results more precisely for different contexts. Originality/value The value lies in exploring the relationship between employee involvement and job satisfaction for millennial workers in the context of a developing country. The paper simultaneously considers different types of employee involvement and estimates their effects on different facets of job satisfaction.

The labor market in developing countries is remarkably heterogeneous, with a small productive formal sector characterized by high wages and attractive employment conditions, and a large informal sector characterized by low productivity and volatile wages. The informal sector is particularly diverse. In this paper, we examine the heterogeneity of the informal sector at the regional level in Colombia. In general, our findings suggest that both voluntary and involuntary informal employment co-exist by choice and as a consequence of labor market segmentation. We also find that there are striking differences in labor market characteristics across cities, particularly with respect to informal employment.

GDP has usually been used as a proxy for human well-being. Nevertheless, other social aspects should also be considered, such as life expectancy, infant mortality, educational enrolment and crime issues. This paper investigates economic and social convergence Convergencia económica y social en Colombia Resumen (ESPAÑOL)El PIB se usa habitualmente como aproximación al bienestar de las personas. Sin embargo otros aspectos sociales deben ser a su vez considerados, como la esperanza de vida, la mortalidad infantil, la educación y la criminalidad. Este trabajo investiga ña convergencia económica y social en regiones de Colombia en el período 1975-2005. Los principales resultados confirman que existe convergencia en Colombia en variables sociales clave, aunque no en la clásica variable económica, el PIB per capita. También se encuentra que la autocorrelación espacial refuerza los procesos de convergencia a través de la profundización de los factores sociales y de mercado, mientras que el aislamiento condena a las regiones a la no convergencia.

GDP has usually been used as a proxy for human well-being. Nevertheless, other social aspects should also be considered, such as life expectancy, infant mortality, educational enrolment and crime issues. This paper investigates economic and social convergence Convergencia económica y social en Colombia Resumen (ESPAÑOL)El PIB se usa habitualmente como aproximación al bienestar de las personas. Sin embargo otros aspectos sociales deben ser a su vez considerados, como la esperanza de vida, la mortalidad infantil, la educación y la criminalidad. Este trabajo investiga ña convergencia económica y social en regiones de Colombia en el período 1975-2005. Los principales resultados confirman que existe convergencia en Colombia en variables sociales clave, aunque no en la clásica variable económica, el PIB per capita. También se encuentra que la autocorrelación espacial refuerza los procesos de convergencia a través de la profundización de los factores sociales y de mercado, mientras que el aislamiento condena a las regiones a la no convergencia.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a study on the antecedents of turnover intentions (TOI) of millennial Colombian employees. A theoretical model in which positive work-family interaction, professional respect (PR) and meaning predicted TOI is simultaneously tested in Millennials and Xers. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a multigroup structural equation approach to analyze the data provided by 2,157 Millennials and 279 Xers. Participants work in 11 companies from five Colombian cities. City, age, sex, tenure and wage are included as control variables to respond to some limitations of previous research and isolate the effects of age cohorts. Findings The results show differences in terms of some of the variables under study. Further, the effects of positive work-family interaction and PR on TOI were different from one age cohort to the other. The influence of meaning on the outcome variable was equal in Millennials and Xers but resulted positive. Research limitations/implications The authors studied an under-researched population, used rigorous analytical procedures to simultaneously test the hypotheses across generations, analyzed data from a large sample size and control for confounding variables identified by researchers inquiring generational differences at the workplace. By these means, the study contributes to literature on millennial employees and age diversity. Originality/value By studying an under-reseach population and using suitable analytical techniques, the study contributes to literature on millennial employees and age diversity.