published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2005, 3 (1), 1-24
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density
fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be
observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated crosssectional
analyses suggest that a number of personal, occupational and attitudinal variables
such as sex, occupational status, firm size and political orientation play a role in the
unionization process, although the influence of many variables is not robust over time. While
the results are consistent with cost-benefit considerations on the sides of employees and
unions, individualization theory and social custom theory is not consistently supported by our
estimations.
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