The duration of union membership: An empirical study

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Thanks to direct access to union databanks, this paper can answer two new questions in Industrial Relations: how long union membership lasts and what are the determinants of its duration. This also allows to conceptualize union membership as a much more dynamic phenomenon than in previous studies, where it was considered a static situation whose causes or eþects were to be investigated. Survival analysis applied to a sample of 48705 workers highlights that union membership duration is a positive, though declining, function of age. Furthermore, women, "flexible" workers, foreign ones and those working in cities tend to show less attachment to union membership than the other workers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1268

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Gewerkschaft ; Mitgliedschaft ; Dauer ; Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad ; Italien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Vaona, Andrea
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3774
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET