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What Explains the Union Membership Gap between Migrants and Natives?
Author(s) -
Kranendonk Maria,
Beer Paul
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/bjir.12192
Subject(s) - embeddedness , variation (astronomy) , demographic economics , affect (linguistics) , migrant workers , inclusion (mineral) , industrial relations , economics , join (topology) , labour economics , political science , sociology , economic growth , gender studies , physics , mathematics , management , communication , combinatorics , astrophysics , anthropology
This article explores the differences in unionization rates between migrant and native‐born workers in 23 European countries. It explores whether individual characteristics or contextual factors explain the variation across countries in the degree of trade unions’ inclusion of migrant workers. The analyses show that individual characteristics cannot explain the variation in the difference between migrant and native unionization rates. Characteristics of the industrial relations regime in the country of destination, in particular the institutional embeddedness of trade unions, affect the likelihood that migrants join trade unions as compared to native workers.