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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hadziabdic, Sinisa

Titel

The Curious Case of the Grumpy Union Member

Ist Teil von

• Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2020-11, Vol.46 (3), p.489

Ort / Verlag

Zurich: De Gruyter Poland

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Relying on the data of the Swiss Household Panel, the paper aims to make sense of the puzzling dissatisfaction union members exhibit in most dimensions of their job. A longitudinal approach reveals that the dissatisfaction is to a large extent explained by contextual and individual time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. A decline in job satisfaction is for many workers the main reason to join a union. Job satisfaction climbs back as the years of membership increase, which confirms that unions do indeed have positive effects on the professional well-being of their members.