It is quite an important determinant in Finland and Australia as well. Thus education generally enhances liberalism in Poland and Finland but enhances neo-corporatism in Australia. This conforms with the results of other analyses showing that Australian educated strata have leftist ideological inclinations, while educated Poles and Finns are more inclined to accept liberal economic reforms. Attitudes to industrial relations are much more strongly linked to socio-economic differences in Finland. Finnish administrative and professional employees as well as business owners are strongly against neo-corporatist industrial relations, while skilled workers and public sector employees support them.
Business owners tend to favour the liberal model, while Finnish union members oppose it.
In Australia, socio-occupational status variables shape attitudes in a way similar to Finland. Administrators, professionals and farmers are strongly against neo-corporatism while public sector employees tend to support corporatism and reject liberalism. Prosperous Australians tend to support the liberal model. Both in Finland and Australia, trade union members strongly support neo-corporatist institutions and are against liberal industrial relations. But in Poland, there is no relation between union membership and the attitudes toward industrial relations, reflecting the unique situation of the Polish trade union movement, which is deeply divided and still in a process of formation.