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| Title: | | Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000  |
| Authors: | | Schnabel, Claus Wagner, Joachim |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 708 |
| 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 crosssectional 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. While the results are consistent with cost-benefit considerations on the sides of employees and unions, individualization theory and social custom theory is not consistently supported by our estimations. |
| Subjects: | | trade union membership Germany micro data |
| JEL: | | J51 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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