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Why Do Workers Join Unions? The Case of Israel

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  • Yitchak Haberfeld

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The author argues that because almost all Israeli wage earners were covered by collective agreements in the early 1980s, neither the “collective voice†hypothesis nor the earnings premium hypothesis—the two prevailing explanations of workers' decision to join unions—was then applicable to Israel. Using 1982 survey data on Israeli workers, he examines four alternative explanations of unionization in Israel: non-work benefits; political ideology; social values, especially workers' attitude toward unions as a means for solidarity; and work and demographic attributes, such as employing unit size, gender, ethnicity, education, and age. He finds that Israeli workers' decision to join the Israeli Federation of Labor—the Histadrut—can be explained in part by non-work benefits of the Histadrut (health insurance and legal aid, for example) and by the workers' social values.

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  • Yitchak Haberfeld, 1995. "Why Do Workers Join Unions? The Case of Israel," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 48(4), pages 656-670, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:48:y:1995:i:4:p:656-670
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    1. Guy Mundlak, 2009. "Addressing the Legitimacy Gap in the Israeli Corporatist Revival," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 47(4), pages 765-787, December.
    2. Guy Mundlak & Ishak Saporta & Yitchak Haberfeld & Yinon Cohen, 2013. "Union Density in Israel 1995–2010: The Hybridization of Industrial Relations," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(1), pages 78-101, January.
    3. Schnabel, Claus, 2002. "Determinants of trade union membership," Discussion Papers 15, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics.
    4. Neuman, Shoshana., 2014. "Job quality in segmented labour markets : the Israeli case: country case study on labour market segmentation," ILO Working Papers 994864593402676, International Labour Organization.
    5. Neuman, Shoshana, 2015. "Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case," CEPR Discussion Papers 10734, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    6. Itzhak Harpaz, 2014. "The historical development of human resource management in Israel," Chapters, in: Bruce E. Kaufman (ed.), The Development of Human Resource Management Across Nations, chapter 10, pages 236-268, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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