The aging of the unions in West Germany, 1980-2006
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Erlangen: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2008. (Diskussionspapiere; No. 60).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - The aging of the unions in West Germany, 1980-2006
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Wagner, Joachim
N1 - Literaturverz. S.16 - 17
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Economics
KW - union membership
KW - union density
KW - cohort effects
KW - West Germany
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Diskussionspapiere
BT - The aging of the unions in West Germany, 1980-2006
PB - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
CY - Erlangen
ER -