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Measuring the Effects of Arbitration on Wage Levels : The Case of Police Officers

Ashenfelter, Orley - 1999

wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political … police officers, and individual level data on police officers from Decennial Censuses. The empirical results from both data …

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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration

Bloom, David E. - 1986

This study analyzes a new set of data on the decisions of conventional arbitrators. The main goal is to draw inferences about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final offers, without reference to the exogenous facts...

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Is Arbitration Addictive? Evidence From the Laboratory and the Field

Currie, Janet - 1992

We test for the presence of an addictive effect of arbitration (positive state dependence) using data both from a laboratory bargaining experiment and from the field. We find no evidence of state dependence in the experimental data, and we find weak evidence of positive state dependence in the...

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Arbitrator Behavior in Public Sector Wage Disputes

Bloom, David E. - 1987

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When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back : Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System

Card, David - 2006

Despite the adoption of no-fault Workers' Compensation legislation in most states, there is substantial litigation over the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability disputes and estimate the model using data on injury claims...

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2003

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Cramton, Peter C. - 1995

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...

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Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs

Guerreiro, João; Hazell, Jonathon; Lian, Chen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How costly is inflation to workers? Answers to this question have focused on the path of real wages during inflationary periods. We argue that workers must take costly actions ("conflict") to have nominal wages catch up with inflation, meaning there are welfare costs even if real wages do not...

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Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime

Ba, Bocar A.; Bayer, Patrick J.; Rim, Nayoung; Rivera, Roman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the … neighborhoods. Moreover, this assignment can be achieved in a revenue-neutral way while resulting in small welfare gains for police …

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Body-Worn Cameras and Adjudication of Citizen Complaints of Police Misconduct

Çubukçu, Suat; Sahin, Nusret M.; Tekin, Erdal; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) have been the subject of much research on how the technology's enhanced documentation … of police/citizen interactions impact police behavior. Less attention has been paid to how BWC recordings affect the … adjudication of citizen complaints against the police. We employ citizen complaint data from the Chicago Police Department and …

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