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

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  • Blanden, Jo
  • Machin, Stephen
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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.

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  • Blanden, Jo & Machin, Stephen, 2003. "Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 334, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    Young people; union member; union at work; relative risk ratio; intergenerational links.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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