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Sex Differences in Labour Turnover in the Australian Public Service *
Author(s) -
CHAPMAN BRUCE J.,
PRIOR HEATHER
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1986.tb00914.x
Subject(s) - ceteris paribus , turnover , demographic economics , government (linguistics) , economics , service (business) , labour economics , set (abstract data type) , microeconomics , philosophy , economy , management , computer science , programming language , linguistics
This paper reports the use of a large data set of Australian government employees in an analysis of the influence of sex on voluntary labour turnover. Estimates derived from a conventional quit model are used to obtain ceteris paribus sex specific quit probabilities. These suggest that once other relevant variables are held constant, the expected quit differences between men and single women are significantly reduced. The analysis indicates clearly that the use of aggregate statistics may substantially exaggerate turnover differences attributable to sex.