In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion … significantly positive relationship between risk aversion and the likelihood of union membership. Additionally, we observe a …

This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from … China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes … interpretation that Party membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling. …

economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household … surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … individual demand for Party membership as an investment in political capital that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …, occupation, and Communist Party membership all play important roles in transmitting economic status from parents to children. …

The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China … greater job satisfaction, a finding not previously reported. We confirm a positive role for membership in the communist party … but find that it exists only for non-migrants suggesting a club good aspect to membership. In contrast to earlier studies …

In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …, observed reductions in the demand for union membership can weaken the impact of a norm and accentuate the free-rider problem. …

for each country, we find that individuals? probability of union membership is significantly affected by their personal …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

women and for different groups of the workforce. Regression estimates indicate that the probability of union membership is …