The aging of the unions in West Germany, 1980-2006

Research output: Working paperWorking papers

Authors

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR 2007) only in very few years. It is demonstrated that both intra-cohort change and cohort replacement effects have played a roughly equal role in the substantial fall in union density since 1980. If older cohorts with high densities continue to be replaced by young cohorts with low densities, average union density will fall further.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationErlangen
PublisherFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Number of pages24
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Documents

Links

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. Martha Hänel

Publications

  1. Hans-Alexander von Voß (1907 - 1944)
  2. Raum -Kunst - Pathos
  3. Human Computer Interaction within an Industrial Psychology Framework
  4. The impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on the performance of service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region
  5. Renewable energy cooperatives as gatekeepers or facilitators?
  6. Increase of large game species in Mediterranean areas: Is the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) facing a new threat?
  7. Was braucht die Produktion von morgen?
  8. Unternehmerische Identität zwischen Nerz, Nerd und Normalunternehmer
  9. Werfen und Fangen oder hin und zurück und mehr
  10. Advances in manufacturing processes for magnesium alloys
  11. Fixed income investor relations
  12. Seeing Green
  13. Relationaler Realismus?
  14. Conclusion: Independent local lists in East and West European countries
  15. Aufwärmprogramm für Reiter
  16. Organizational Ethical Cultures and Social Embeddedness – A Research Framework for Investigating Externally Anchored Organizational Worldviews
  17. The heavy weight of death
  18. Time Headway and Comfort in Adaptive Cruise Control
  19. Hierarchie
  20. Unterrichtsbesprechungen im Praktikum
  21. Pre-service teachers’ ability to identify academic language features
  22. Promovieren als handlungsorientiertes Projekt
  23. "If You Can't Hack 'em, Absorb 'em" or the Endless Dance of the Corporate Revolution
  24. Should Alexander von Humboldt Be Part of Contemporary Geography Education?
  25. ATLAS
  26. Technische Reproduzierbarkeit
  27. The environmental and economic effects of European emissions trading
  28. Freihandel unter Feuer
  29. Spielautomatensprache
  30. Versöhnendes Handeln – Handeln in Versöhnung. Gottes Opfer an die Menschen
  31. Microphones, not megaphones
  32. Die wahrgenommene feministische Bedrohung
  33. Tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Behandlung einer Jugendlichen
  34. Heterogene Argumentationen zur Legitimierung der Didaktik des Sachunterrichts
  35. Modelling the impact of climate change on Tanzanian forests
  36. Leveraging inner sustainability through cross-cultural learning
  37. Comment on "The environmental photolysis of perfluorooctanesulfonate, perfluorooctanoate, and related fluorochemicals"
  38. Fremdsprachenforschung heute: Interdisziplinäre Impulse, Methoden und Perspektiven
  39. Sustainable Landscapes in Central Romania
  40. Competencies for Advancing Transformations Towards Sustainability
  41. Land-sharing/-sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation