Determinants of trade union membership in Western Germany: evidence from micro data, 1980 - 2000

Claus Schnabel; Joachim Wagner

Determinants of trade union membership in Western Germany: evidence from micro data, 1980 - 2000

Claus Schnabel
, Joachim Wagner

Publikation: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere

Abstract

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...

Originalsprache	Englisch
Erscheinungsort	Lüneburg
Verlag	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
Seitenumfang	23
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 2003

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