%0 Journal Article
%T Explaining leaving union membership by the degree of labour market attachment: Exploring the case of Germany
%A Janine Leschke
%A Kurt Vandaele
%J Economic and Industrial Democracy
%@ 1461-7099
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0143831X15603456
%X By particularly stressing the weaker labour market attachment of workers with non-standard contracts, this article contributes to the rather unexplored issue of mainly non-union-related reasons for leaving trade unions. Germany has been selected as a case study because German unions experienced a steady decline in membership, while at the same time non-standard employment arrangements increased considerably and more so than the European average. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel data, the authors construct a labour market attachment variable capturing different degrees of attachment. Their analysis shows the impact of labour market attachment and firm-level characteristics on union leaving and points especially to important differences across gender
%K Germany
%K labour market attachment
%K non-standard employment
%K trade union membership
%K union membership outflow
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0143831X15603456