Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? : Empirical Evidence from Western and Eastern Germany
Abstract: "Using representative data from the German social survey ALLBUS 2002 and the European Social Survey 2002/03, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of trade union ‘never-membership’ in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. In western Germany, individuals’ probability of ‘never-membership’ is significantly affected by their personal characteristics, their political orientation and (to a lesser degree) their family background. In addition, the presence of a union at the workplace plays a significant role. While the latter factor is also important in eastern Germany, many of the variables which are relevant for ‘never-membership’ in the west prove to be irrelevant in the east. This difference probably reflects the fact that most employees in eastern Germany did not really have a choice not to become union members during the communist regime." (author's abstract)
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Welche Arbeitnehmer waren nie Mitglied einer Gewerkschaft? Empirische Evidenz aus West- und Ostdeutschland
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Sprache
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management ; 13 (2006) 2 ; 118-131
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Wirtschaft
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2006
- Urheber
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Schnabel, Claus
Wagner, Joachim
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-359331
- Rechteinformation
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Schnabel, Claus
- Wagner, Joachim
Entstanden
- 2006