The effect of migration on unionization in Austria

We analyze how native employees’ union membership rates change in response to foreign employees using Austrian administrative data for the period 2002 to 2012. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results indicate a negative effect of immigrant employees on native employees’ unionization ra...

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Published in:Empirical economics 2022-11, Vol.63 (5), p.2693-2720
Main Authors: Antón, José-Ignacio, Böheim, René, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Econometrics
Economic theory
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Employees
Finance
Hiring
Hypotheses
Immigrants
Immigration
Inequality
Insurance
Labor unions
Management
Migrants
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Statistics for Business
Union membership
Unionization
Workers
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Summary:We analyze how native employees’ union membership rates change in response to foreign employees using Austrian administrative data for the period 2002 to 2012. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results indicate a negative effect of immigrant employees on native employees’ unionization rates at the firm level. The negative effect is the result of a greater—mostly voluntary—turnover of unionized native employees in firms with a larger share of migrants, but it is not caused by native employees leaving unions or firms’ reduced hiring of native union members.
ISSN:0377-7332
1435-8921
DOI:10.1007/s00181-022-02220-w