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The Duration of Union Membership in Italy: A Research Note
Author(s) -
VAONA ANDREA
Publication year - 2008
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/j.1468-232x.2008.00519.x
Subject(s) - duration (music) , context (archaeology) , sample (material) , phenomenon , demographic economics , union density , regression analysis , industrial relations , econometrics , political science , labour economics , economics , geography , statistics , mathematics , law , epistemology , art , philosophy , chemistry , literature , archaeology , chromatography , collective bargaining
Thanks to direct access to union databases, this note can answer two new questions in industrial relations: how long union membership lasts and what are the determinants of its duration within an open‐shop context. This also allows for conceptualizing union membership as a much more dynamic phenomenon than in previous studies, where it was considered a static condition whose causes or effects were to be investigated. Regression analysis applied to a sample of 29,035 Italian workers highlights that union membership duration is a positive but declining function of age. Furthermore, women, flexible workers, foreign ones, and those working in cities tend to show less attachment to union membership than the other workers.