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International Journal of Public Opinion Research Advance Access originally published online on May 13, 2009
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2009 21(2):224-234; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edp021
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

An Application of the Estimated Dependent Variable Approach: Trade Union Members' Support for Active Labor Market Policies and Insider-Outsider Politics

Moira Nelson

Address correspondence to Moira Nelson, Lenbachstrasse 7a, D-10245 Berlin, Germany, moira@email.unc.edu

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Methodological responses to the issues associated with multilevel data quickened in recent years. Multilevel models, as a generalization of regression techniques, perform at least as good or better than regression models (Gelman, 2006; Gelman & Hill, 2007); at the same time, beyond explicitly modeling the multilevel nature of a given data structure, multilevel models exhibit differences that practitioners should observe. Recent accounts recommend the "estimated dependent variable" approach where the number of first level variable is high (often individuals) and the number of second-level variables is low (often countries, interviewers, election periods, etc.) (Franzese, 2005; Huber, Kernell, & Leoni, 2005; Jusko & Shively, 2005; Lewis & Linzer, 2005).

Given the prevalence of such a data structure in international public opinion research, this article sets out to make the estimated dependent variable more accessible by examining the effect of contextual effects on union members’ . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   ADVANTAGES OF THE ESTIMATED DEPENDENT VARIABLE APPROACH
 

   TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP AND SUPPORT FOR ACTIVE LABOR MARKET POLICIES
 

   ANALYSIS
 

   CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION
 

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