Characteristics and Customs: Empirical Evidence on the Union‐joining Decision

Ingham, Mike

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“…Visser (2002) finds that the probability of joining a union goes along with a pro-union attitude, the perceived pro-union climate and the perceived union density, using two surveys of Dutch employees. For a cross sectional data set of British university employees, Ingham (1993Ingham ( , 1995 estimates that the probability of union membership increases with the partner being a union member and the perceived union density. Neither of these three studies can disentangle the impact of individual unobserved effects and the consequences of social norms on the decision to join or leave the union, since they either do not exploit the panel structure of the data set (Visser 2002) or only utilise a cross sectional data set (Ingham 1993(Ingham , 1995.…”

Section: Determination Of Union Membership -A Review Of Contributionsmentioning

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“…While there are other studies focusing on the determinants of being a union member in Germany, such as Lorenz and Wagner (1991), Fitzenberger et al (1999), Beck and Fitzenberger (2003) and Wagner (2003a, 2003b), neither investigates the validity of the social custom assumption systematically. union, since they either do not exploit the panel structure of the dataset (Visser, 2002) or only utilize a cross-sectional dataset (Ingham, 1993(Ingham, , 1995.…”

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

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Pannenberg

2004

German Economic Review

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Section: Determination Of Union Membership -A Review Of Contributionsmentioning

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Section: Determination Of Union Membership: a Review Of Contributionsmentioning

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke

Pannenberg

2004

German Economic Review

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“…Prior expectations are that both a 1 and a 2 will be positive, but there is substantial ambiguity regarding the likely impact of most personal and job characteristics (e.g. Ingham, 1993). The important point at this juncture, however, is that standard models of the unionization decision (e.g.…”

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“…A fuller description of the survey and its summary findings can be found inIngham (1993). Here it is simply noted that, at the time of the survey, the university employed somewhat over 1500 workers in various academic and non-academic positions and was an open shop in all areas.…”

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Union joining: an empirical test of the social custom model

Ingham¹

1995

Applied Economics Letters

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“…Existing research regarding the relationship between union members' qualifications and representative status has been subject to mixed findings (Ng, 1992). Ingham (1993) argued that those with better educational qualifications are more articulate, and are therefore better able to influence the actions of unions. We propose that members who have attained greater professional and educational qualifications would be more influential within the union than those with lesser qualifications because of their elevated skill level and competency:…”

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The Role of Job Representatives in an Organizing Strategy: The Case of the Australian Nursing Federation

Bartram

Stanton

Elovaris

2008

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Based on a survey of Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) members, this article investigates why certain individuals become union representatives (job representatives), and others remain rank-and-file union members. This article argues that job representatives are a key component of an organizing strategy and have played a crucial role in membership growth of the ANF over the last decade. Logistic regression results indicate that union commitment, employer trust, intra-group identification and full-time employment are predictors of representative status. Results of a chi-square test indicate that job representatives have a higher probability of attempting to recruit relative to rank-and-file members. Open-ended questions reveal that nearly 50 percent of rank-and-file members would be willing to become job representatives should they be given more time or reduced working hours, more training or knowledge of responsibilities, or rewards. These findings have implications for ANF organizing strategies and other Australian trade unions in the current climate of industrial relations reform and union density decline.

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Characteristics and Customs: Empirical Evidence on the Union‐joining Decision

Cited by 7 publications

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Union joining: an empirical test of the social custom model

The Role of Job Representatives in an Organizing Strategy: The Case of the Australian Nursing Federation

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