The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms

Martin Murmann

No 17-010, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms. Worker replacement isolates labor turnover due to employee replacement as a separate category of turnover and has been shown to positively affect the productivity of established firms in previous research. Using a large and representative sample of German start-ups, I show that worker replacement has negative effects on young firms' productivity that remain even when controlling for moderating factors. These effects are even more negative when the founder does not have prior managerial experience.

Keywords: Firm productivity; Labour turnover; Churning; Entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 J24 J63 L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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