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Union membership among young graduate workers in Australia: using the experience good model to explain the role of student employment
Author(s) -
Oliver Damian
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2010.00582.x
Subject(s) - panel data , demographic economics , graduate students , political science , labour economics , psychology , public relations , economics , pedagogy , econometrics
Using panel data from a survey of 319 university graduates, this article shows that positive experiences of union membership during the student employment phase increase the likelihood of university graduates becoming union members. These results are consistent with the ‘experience good’ model of union membership.