Bryson, Alexander;
Blanchflower, David G;
(2022)
Union membership and job satisfaction over the life course.
Industrial Relations Journal
, 53
(5)
pp. 411-429.
10.1111/irj.12379.
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Abstract
We examine the relationship between union membership and job satisfaction over the life-course using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) tracking all those born in Great Britain in a single week in March in 1958 through to age 55 (2013). We find there is a significant negative correlation between union membership and job satisfaction that is apparent across the life-course. Lagged union membership status going back many years is negatively correlated with current job satisfaction, though its effects become statistically non-significant when conditioning on current union membership status. These results provide a different perspective to longitudinal studies showing short-term positive responses to switches in membership status. They are consistent with earlier work showing that this cohort of workers, and others before them, have persistently lower job satisfaction as union members compared to their non-union counterparts.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Union membership and job satisfaction over the life course |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/irj.12379 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12379 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Industrial Relations Journal published by Brian Towers (BRITOW) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| Keywords: | Union membership, job satisfaction, life course, National Child Development Study |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154142 |
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