Union status of young men in Britain: a decade of change
利用英国全国儿童发展研究的纵向数据，分析1981-1991年间年轻男性工会会员身份的决定因素，发现大型工作场所减少和公共部门收缩解释了约三分之一的工会会员下降。
Previous empirical studies of individual union status in Britain have been cross-sectional. In contrast, we use longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study, to estimate the determinants of male trade union membership over the period 1981–1991. As suggested by union theories, we find that it is important to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity, and our preferred model allows for correlation of individual heterogeneity with observable variables. Our estimates reveal that the observed decline in very large workplaces, and the contraction of the public sector, explain about one third of the predicted decline in union membership over the period. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.