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Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status for Young People in Britain

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Blanden, Jo (London School of Economics)
Stephen Machin

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In this paper we investigate whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. We find that young people with unionized fathers are twice as likely to be unionized as those with non-union fathers. This association is stronger if the father reported himself as being active in the trade union. These links cannot be accounted for by the common individual or workplace characteristics of children and their parents and they have not decreased as union membership declined over the 1980s and 1990s.

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Paper provided by Royal Economic Society in its series Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 with number 24.

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Keywords: young people; union member; union at work; relative risk ratio; intergenerational links;

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J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models
J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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  1. Guadalupe, Maria, 2003. "The hidden costs of fixed term contracts: the impact on work accidents," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(3), pages 339-357, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. A Charlwood, 2003. "The Anatomy of Union Decline in Britain: 1990-1998," CEP Discussion Papers dp0601, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. [Downloadable!]
  2. David G. Blanchflower, 2006. "A Cross-Country Study of Union Membership," IZA Discussion Papers 2016, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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