Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion … outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel direct measures of individual risk aversion, we find evidence of a … significantly positive relationship between risk aversion and the likelihood of union membership. Additionally, we observe a …