Union Membership and Perceived Job Insecurity
Thirty Years of Evidence from the American General Social Survey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3443722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre Brochu (University of Ottawa), Louis-Philippe Morin, Louis‐Philippe Morin (0000-0002-9204-1277) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-285 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979391206500204 |
| OpenAlex | W2099801452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 38 |
Using the American General Social Survey covering the period 1978-2008, the authors investigate the link between union membership and perceived job insecurity. They find that overall, union members are 3.5 percentage points more likely than non-union members to feel insecure about their current jobs as well as future job prospects, especially during recessionary periods. This result is twice that in the manufacturing sector. By contrast, there is virtually no union effect on job insecurity in transportation, communication, and other services sectors. The use of instrumental-variables estimation methods and attitudinal proxy variables indicates that the positive correlation between union membership and perceived job insecurity is not due to self-selection, nor it is related to the decline of unionism in the United States
Demographic economics · Economics · General Social Survey · Job insecurity · Political science · Proxy (statistics) · Statistics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |