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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition

Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and … surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship …

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Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which … union-membership probability and predicted union and nonunion wages. The model yields a natural three-way decomposition of … variance. The decomposition permits counterfactual analysis, using concepts and techniques from the theory of factorial …

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An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions

Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

relative public/private and union/nonunion wages. Observations are provided on the current debates regarding public/private pay …

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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce....

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The (Parlous) State of German Unions

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

wages that are more responsive to unemployment. At issue is the success of these innovations. For instance, the trend toward …

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Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...

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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain- Mundlack correlated random effects...

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Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using representative data from the German social survey ALLBUS 2002 and the European Social Survey 2002/03, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of trade union nevermembership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all employees in Germany have never been members of a...

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