Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been declining dramatically since the early 90's. However, aggregate gross membership numbers do not distinguish by employment status and it is impossible to disaggregate these...

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...

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...

Die Entwicklung gewerkschaftlicher Programmatiken und Strategien im Umweltschutz wird analysiert als Moment organisationalen Lernens, d.h. des Prozesses der Integration und des Ausbalancierens unterschiedlicher Anschauungen, Einsichten und Interessen, über den Organisationen Handlungskompetenz...