Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282731 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16604
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired workers' probability of union membership is 17 percentage points lower than that of active workers. This finding is consistent with social custom models and cost-benefit considerations. We further find that some determinants of union membership differ between active and retired workers and that standard membership models better explain the unionization of active than retired workers.
Subjects: 
trade union
retirement
union membership
Europe
JEL: 
J26
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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