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Worker Turnover in the 1920s: The Role of Changing Employment Policies

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This paper examines the decline in turnover of manufacturing workers during the 1920s as a response to new employment policies which increased workers' cost of voluntary (and involuntary) separation. Case studies of four firms are used to illustrate that the incentives to change employment procedures were the reduction of costly labor turnover and the motivation of worker effort. Firms' new employment practices reduced labor turnover through the direct effect on their workers and the equilibrium effect on the aggregate labor market. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Owen, Laura J, 1995. "Worker Turnover in the 1920s: The Role of Changing Employment Policies," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 4(3), pages 499-530.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:4:y:1995:i:3:p:499-530
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    1. Burnette, Joyce & Stanfors, Stanfors, 2018. "Understanding the gender gap among turn-of-the-century Swedish compositors," Working Paper Series 2018:1, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    2. Maloney, Thomas N., 1998. "Racial Segregation, Working Conditions, and Workers' Health: Evidence from the A. M. Byers Company, 1916-1930," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 35(3), pages 272-295, July.
    3. Joyce Burnette, 2021. "Missing work: absenteeism at Pepperell Manufacturing Co. in 1883," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 15(3), pages 755-786, September.

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