Union membership and age: the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2008. (Working paper series in economics; No. 107).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Union membership and age: the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
AU - Schnabel, Claus
AU - Wagner, Joachim
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 8 - 9
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this note we cast some doubt on the claim put forward by David Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of being unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. By using a special test for an inverted Ushaped pattern that 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 for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our findings suggest that more definitive evidence is needed before the existence of international unionization-age patterns can be taken for granted.
AB - In this note we cast some doubt on the claim put forward by David Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of being unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. By using a special test for an inverted Ushaped pattern that 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 for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our findings suggest that more definitive evidence is needed before the existence of international unionization-age patterns can be taken for granted.
KW - Economics
KW - unionization
KW - age
KW - inverted U-shape
KW - Germany
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - Union membership and age: the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -