Trade union membership and paid vacation in Germany

Laszlo Goerke, Sabrina Jeworrek and Markus Pannenberg

IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-26

Abstract: In Germany, dependent employees take almost 30 days of paid vacation annually. We enquire whether an individual’s trade union membership affects the duration of vacation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1985 to 2010 and employing pooled OLS-estimators, we find that being a union member goes along with almost one additional day of vacation per year. Estimations exploiting the panel structure of our data suggest that a smaller part of this vacation differential can be due to the union membership status, while self-selection effects play a more important role. Copyright Goerke et al. 2015

Keywords: J 22; J 33; J 51; J 81; German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP); Paid vacation; Trade union membership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1186/s40172-015-0033-5

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