Konferenzbeitrag
Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
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 free-ride 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Determinants of Unemployment ; No. D6-V3
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Public Goods
- Thema
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dismissal
free-riding
trade union membership
survey data
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Pannenberg, Markus
Goerke, Laszlo
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Verein für Socialpolitik
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Frankfurt a. M.
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Pannenberg, Markus
- Goerke, Laszlo
- Verein für Socialpolitik
Entstanden
- 2010