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Title: Creating a More Quit-friendly National Workforce? Individual Layoff History and Voluntary Turnover
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1. Davis, Paul R.
Trevor, Charlie O.
Feng, Jie
Creating a More Quit-friendly National Workforce? Individual Layoff History and Voluntary Turnover
Journal of Applied Psychology 100,5 (2015): 1434-1455.
Also: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000012
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Labor Turnover; Layoffs; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Underemployment

Although Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveal that U.S. employers laid off over 30 million employees since 1994, virtually no research has addressed the behavior of layoff victims upon reemployment. In a first step, we investigate how layoffs shape voluntary turnover behavior in subsequent jobs. Utilizing a recently developed fixed effects specification of survival analysis, we find that a layoff history is positively associated with quit behavior. This effect is partially mediated by underemployment and job satisfaction in the postlayoff job. The remaining direct effect is consistent with the notion that layoffs produce a psychological spillover to postlayoff employment, which then manifests in quit behavior. We also find that layoff effects on turnover attenuate as an individual's layoffs accumulate and vary in magnitude according to the turnover "path" followed by the leaver. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Davis, Paul R., Charlie O. Trevor and Jie Feng. "Creating a More Quit-friendly National Workforce? Individual Layoff History and Voluntary Turnover." Journal of Applied Psychology 100,5 (2015): 1434-1455.