Labor Unions and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from New Data

Autor/inn/en	Flavin, Patrick; Pacek, Alexander C.; Radcliff, Benjamin
Titel	Labor Unions and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from New Data
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 98 (2010) 3, S.435-449 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-009-9549-z
Schlagwörter	Unions; Life Satisfaction; Quality of Life; Low Income Groups; Developed Nations; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensvollendung; Lebensqualität; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Ausland
Abstract	While a growing literature demonstrates the impact of socio-political factors on citizens' quality of life, scholars have paid comparatively little attention to the role political organizations such as labor unions play in this regard. We examine labor organization as a determinant of cross-national variation in life satisfaction across a sample of advanced industrial polities. Our findings strongly suggest that unions increase the life satisfaction of citizens, and that that this effect holds for non-union members as well. Moreover, we also find that labor organization has the strongest impact on the subjective well-being of citizens with lower incomes. We confirm these hypotheses using both individual and aggregate-level data from fourteen nations. We show these relationships to have an independent and separable impact from other economic, political, and cultural determinants. The implications for the study of life satisfaction and of labor unions as political actors in general are discussed. (As Provided).
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