- Author
- Schnabel Claus (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Wagner Joachim (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany)
- Title
- With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship
- Source
- Contemporary Economics, 2012, vol. 6, nr 4, s. 28-34, tab., bibliogr. 7 poz.
- Keyword
- Integracja gospodarcza państw z UE
Economic integration with the EU countries - Note
- summ.
- Company
- Unia Europejska (UE)
European Union (EU) - Country
- Niemcy
Germany - Abstract
- In this note, we apply a new test by Lind and Mehlum (2010), casting doubt on the claim proposed by Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of unionisation follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. With this new test for an inverted U-shaped pattern, which has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that - at least with respect to West Germany - Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our findings suggest that more definitive evidence is needed before the existence of international unionisation-age patterns can be taken for granted. (original abstract)
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- Bibliography
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- ISSN
- 2084-0845
- Language
- eng
- URI / DOI
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5709/ce.1897-9254.65
