Butter, Frank A.G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2003
examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that … strike activity is high in France if workers were successful in obtaining relatively high wage increases in collective labour … agreements in the previous year, whereas strike activity is high in the Netherlands if, in the preceding year, real wage …