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IMPACT OF COMMUNIST PARTIES ON THE INDIVIDUAL DECISION TO JOIN A TRADE UNION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
Author(s) -
PAL Rupayan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2010.00117.x
Subject(s) - communism , politics , unemployment , marital status , state (computer science) , trade union , ethnic group , demographic economics , political science , join (topology) , industrial relations , sample (material) , labour economics , economics , economic growth , law , sociology , demography , population , algorithm , computer science , chemistry , mathematics , combinatorics , chromatography
This paper analyzes the impact on individual decisions to unionize of several factors: the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics. The workers examined are Indian nonagricultural regular workers, using micro‐data from the 2004–5 Employment and Unemployment Survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation, linked to state‐level factors. A notable result is that the reach of communist parties has considerable effect on unionization probability. Moreover, it seems that the mere existence of communist parties in a state also facilitates unionization to some extent. State‐level political activism and unemployment rate also influence the individual decision to join a union. The paper concludes also that a worker's gender, marital status, ethnic background, employment status, experience, occupation, sector of employment, establishment size, and type of industry remain important in the determination of union membership.