Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Joanne Blanden and Stephen Machin

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Abstract: This paper investigates 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 and that this rises to three times higher for those whose fathers are active in the union. This supports the idea that socialization within the family plays a role in encouraging union membership. It is not the case that the cross-generation correlations we observe are driven by common within-family characteristics (like occupation, industry and political persuasion) that are strongly related to union membership.

Keywords: Young people; union member; union at work; relative risk ratio; intergenerational links. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J51 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-09
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Published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, September, 2003, 41(3), pp. 391-415. ISSN: 0007-1080

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Journal Article: Cross‐Generation Correlations of Union Status for Young People in Britain (2003)
Working Paper: Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status for Young People in Britain (2003)
Working Paper: Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status For Young People in Britain (2002)
Working Paper: Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain (2002)
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