With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship

In this note, we apply a new test by Lind and Mehlum (2010), casting doubt on the claim proposed by Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of unionisation follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. With this new test for an inverted U-shaped pattern, which...

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Main Authors: Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 2012-12-01
Series:Contemporary Economics
Online Access:http://ce.vizja.pl/en/download-pdf/id/267