Worker Turnover in the 1920s: What Labor-Supply Arguments Don't Tell Us
研究了20世纪20年代美国制造业工人离职率下降的原因，通过汇总数据和四个企业案例评估了劳动力供给解释，发现其不充分，提出需考察企业雇佣政策。
This article investigates the decline in turnover of manufacturing workers in the United States that occurred in the 1920s. Three labor-supply explanations are evaluated using aggregate data on manufacturing workers and case studies of four manufacturing firms. The labor-supply analysis does not yield a satisfying explanation of the decline in quit rates of manufacturing workers. The suggestion is made that an examination of firms' employment policies is necessary to explain why workers were quitting their jobs less frequently.