Arbeitspapier
Unionization of retired workers in Europe
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 128
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Retirement; Retirement Policies
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
- Subject
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trade union
retirement
union membership
Europe
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Pyka, Vinzenz
Schnabel, Claus
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
- (where)
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Nürnberg
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Pyka, Vinzenz
- Schnabel, Claus
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
Time of origin
- 2023
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