A Switch or a Process? Disentangling the Effects of Union Membership on Political Attitudes in Switzerland and the UK

IF 2.4 3区 管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Sinisa Hadziabdic, Lucio Baccaro
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The paper examines the effects of union membership on individual political attitudes using panel data for Swiss and British workers. Considering union membership as an on/off switch (member vs. non‐member), as it is often done, it is only possible to distinguish between a selection effect (unions attract like‐minded individuals) and a molding effect (the experience of membership has a transformational impact on the individual). Exploiting the longitudinal structure of the data reveals that union membership is best characterized not as a switch, but as a dynamic process involving anticipation effects (which start well before becoming affiliated) and maturation effects (which become noticeable only after a certain duration of membership and may not dissipate after leaving the union). Empirically, the selection effect appears the most important in the two countries we focus on, while the molding effect is less pronounced. Anticipation and maturation effects are also non‐negligible and hitherto unexplored.

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交换机还是进程?欧盟成员身份对瑞士和英国政治态度的影响
本文利用瑞士和英国工人的面板数据,考察了工会成员身份对个人政治态度的影响。将工会成员资格视为一个开关(会员与非会员),就像它经常做的那样,我们只能区分选择效应(工会吸引志同道合的人)和塑造效应(会员的经历对个人产生了转型影响)。利用数据的纵向结构揭示,工会成员资格最好不是作为一种转换,而是作为一个动态过程,涉及预期效应(在加入工会之前就开始了)和成熟效应(只有在加入工会一段时间后才变得明显,在离开工会后可能不会消散)。从经验上看,在我们关注的两个国家中,选择效应似乎最为重要,而塑造效应则不那么明显。预期和成熟效应也是不可忽视的,迄今尚未被探索。
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Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-
CiteScore
4.40
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8.70%
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25
期刊介绍: Corporate restructuring and downsizing, the changing employment relationship in union and nonunion settings, high performance work systems, the demographics of the workplace, and the impact of globalization on national labor markets - these are just some of the major issues covered in Industrial Relations. The journal offers an invaluable international perspective on economic, sociological, psychological, political, historical, and legal developments in labor and employment. It is the only journal in its field with this multidisciplinary focus on the implications of change for business, government and workers.
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