With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship

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With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship. / Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus.
in: Contemporary Economics, Jahrgang 6, Nr. 4, 07.12.2012, S. 28-34.

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title = "With or Without U?: Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship",
abstract = "In this note, we apply a new test by Lind and Mehlum (2010), casting doubt on the claim proposed by Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of unionisation follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. With this new test for an inverted U-shaped pattern, which has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that - at least with respect to West Germany - Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our findings suggest that more definitive evidence is need- ed before the existence of international unionisation-age patterns can be taken for granted.",
keywords = "Economics, age, Germany, Inverted u-shape, Unionisation",
author = "Joachim Wagner and Claus Schnabel",
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language = "English",
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journal = "Contemporary Economics",
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