|
EconStor >
ifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München >
CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46285
|
| | |
| Title: | | Trade Union Membership and Dismissals  |
| Authors: | | Goerke, Laszlo Pannenberg, Markus |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Labour Markets 3196 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | dismissal free-riding trade union membership survey data |
| JEL: | | C23 H41 J51 J63 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
|
| |
| | |
Download bibliographical data as:
BibTeX
|
| |
Share on:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46285
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|