Determinants of trade union membership in Western Germany: evidence from micro data, 1980 - 2000
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2003. (Arbeitsbericht; Nr. 284).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Determinants of trade union membership in Western Germany
T2 - evidence from micro data, 1980 - 2000
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated cross-sectional analyses suggest that a number of personal, occupational and attitudinal variables such as sex, occupational status, firm size and political orientation play a role in the unionization process, although the influence of many variables is not robust over time. While the results are consistent with cost-benefit considerations on the sides of employees and unions, individualization theory and social custom theory is not consistently supported by our estimations.
AB - An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated cross-sectional analyses suggest that a number of personal, occupational and attitudinal variables such as sex, occupational status, firm size and political orientation play a role in the unionization process, although the influence of many variables is not robust over time. While the results are consistent with cost-benefit considerations on the sides of employees and unions, individualization theory and social custom theory is not consistently supported by our estimations.
KW - Economics
KW - Deutschland
KW - Gewerkschaft
KW - Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Arbeitsbericht
BT - Determinants of trade union membership in Western Germany
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -