Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1268:
The Duration of Union Membership: an Empirical Study
Andrea Vaona
Abstract: 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 e¤ects 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, ..exi- ble.workers,
foreign ones and those working in cities tend to show less attachment to
union membership than the other workers.
26 pages, February 2006
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