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Do Unions Help or Hinder Women in Training? Apprenticeship Programs in the United States[Note 1. We thank, without implicating, Cathy Weinberger and other participants ...]
Author(s) -
Berik Günseli,
Bilginsoy Cihan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.00185
Subject(s) - apprenticeship , attrition , graduation (instrument) , demographic economics , argument (complex analysis) , joint (building) , labour economics , political science , psychology , economics , medicine , engineering , history , mechanical engineering , architectural engineering , archaeology , dentistry
Trade unions are frequently criticized for excluding women from skilled crafts by denying them training. This article examines this argument by eestimatin the retention and attrition probabilities of men and women in the joint union‐management and the unilateral employer‐sponsored apprenticeship programs. While men, on average, have higher retention and lower attrition rates than women, joint sponsorship raises women's graduation probability above (and lowers their quit probability below) those of men or women apprentices in unilateral programs.