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 …

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

Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …

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 …

inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence … intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our …

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … average partial effect of union membership. …

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

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. Regression estimates indicate that the probability of union membership is … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and …

This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from … interpretation that Party membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling. …