@inproceedings{Pannenberg2010Trade,
abstract = {In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members are less likely to lose their jobs than non-members. In particular, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we can show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated average partial effect of union membership.},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
author = {Markus Pannenberg and Laszlo Goerke},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J51; J63; H41; 330; dismissal; free-riding; trade union membership; survey data},
language = {eng},
number = {D6-V3},
publisher = {Verein f\"{u}r Socialpolitik},
series = {Beitr\"{a}ge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins f\"{u}r Socialpolitik 2010: \"{O}konomie der Familie - Session: Determinants of Unemployment},
title = {Trade Union Membership and Dismissals},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37259},
year = {2010}
}
