Trade union membership and dismissals

Arbeitspapier

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 freeride 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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5222

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Public Goods ; Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
• Thema: dismissal ; free-riding ; trade union membership ; survey data ; Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad ; Mitgliedschaft ; Trittbrettfahrerverhalten ; Arbeitsplatzsicherung ; Kündigung ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Goerke, Laszlo ; Pannenberg, Markus
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46187
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ