Education, Mobility and Employers' Monopsony Power: A Search-theoretic Analysis

Decreuse, Bruno; Granier, Pierre

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9914.2005.00310.x

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“…As higheducated employees will be able to work with a larger scope of technologies, they will accordingly be able to find another job more easily. This is named 'the adaptability effect' of education, which refers to the possibility of having better matches with multiple companies (Decreuse & Granier, 2005). Furthermore, higher levels of education are often associated with higher levels of 'career mindedness'.…”

Section: Level Of Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the fact that there is no significant difference between the job-hop frequency of higher and lower educated employees suggests that although higher educated employees are able to change companies more often than their lower educated counterparts (e.g. Decreuse & Granier, 2005), lower educated employees seem to have similar mobility patters. Therefore, human resource departments should not focus their retention management solely on higher educated employees, but on lower educated employees as well.…”

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Determinants of job-hopping: an empirical study in Belgium

Steenackers

Guerry

2016

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of job-hopping. More specifically, the authors investigate the effect of age, gender, educational level, organizational size and sector on the job-hop frequency. Design/methodology/approach – Due to a lack of an existing appropriate measure of job-hopping, the authors introduce a new measure, namely, the job-hop frequency. Based on the data collected from a survey in Belgium, a linear regression analysis is performed. Findings – Through an empirical analysis, the authors show that age is negatively related to the job-hop frequency. Gender moderates this relationship. Therefore, the analysis supports the view that young women tend to job-hop significantly more than young men, but as they age, women are significantly more likely than men to remain within the same company. Furthermore, the authors find that the educational level has no influence on the job-hop behavior, indicating that having more job alternatives does not necessarily result in actual job-hop behavior. Both the sector and the size of the organization are found not to be significantly related to the job-hop frequency. Practical implications – This research provides human resource managers more insight into the job-hop behavior of employees and offers some useful suggestions for their retention management. Originality/value – Existing literature on turnover is very extensive, but literature on job-hopping remains rather underexplored. Therefore, the study extends previous research on voluntary turnover and job mobility by focussing on job-hopping in particular.

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Section: Level Of Educationmentioning

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Section: Conclusion Limitations and Further Researchmentioning

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Determinants of job-hopping: an empirical study in Belgium

Steenackers

Guerry

2016

International Journal of Manpower

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“…In other words, education generates congestion externalities. Decreuse and Granier (2005) also argue that investing in education improves employment perspectives, not because the higher educated benefit from a better ranking in the job queue, but because they benefit from a larger contact rate. They suggest that education causes two conflicting externalities: it improves the wage distribution, but reduces the sector-specific tightness.…”

Section: B Negative Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For each observation, we have basic individual data such as age, gender, educational attainment, employment status, and location attributes of the household. 13 Municipalities are identified on the basis of IPUMS codes, which are geographical divisions that contain no less than 20,000 inhabitants. Indeed, this code aggregates the information from 1052 municipalities into 532 observations; thus, some observations include more than one municipality.…”

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Las ventajas laborales de la aglomeración del capital humano en los muncipios colombianos

Diaz

2013

Ensayos sobre Política Económica

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“…Knowledge workers tend to be more highly educated and in professional careers. Because education has been linked to greater job mobility (Decreuse & Granier, 2005), survivors may be less concerned about job loss and may manifest fewer negative responses to downsizing. Surviving knowledge workers may also have more flexibility to reconfigure social networks, lessening the negative effects of the social disruption caused by downsizing.…”

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Butler

Ranft

2012

Journal of Management

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Downsizing is a common business management practice. Prior research has examined the financial consequences of downsizing or the impact on individuals remaining in a downsizing organization. Taking a resource-based perspective, this study integrates and extends prior research on downsizing by examining how downsizing influences the relative likelihood that a firm will experience one of three states in the three years following downsizing. Multinomial logistic regression is employed to test hypotheses using a sample of 445 firms that downsized during the period 1995 to 2000. The authors find significant differences in the relative likelihood of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, acquisition, or remaining a nonbankrupt going concern based on the size of the downsizing, firm-level intangible resources, the tangible asset intensity of the firm, and industry-level knowledge intensity. Implications for managers and future research are discussed.

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Education, Mobility and Employers' Monopsony Power: A Search-theoretic Analysis

Cited by 5 publications

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Determinants of job-hopping: an empirical study in Belgium

Determinants of job-hopping: an empirical study in Belgium

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