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Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894: New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism

Currie, Janet; Ferrie, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

information on each state's legal environment and unique strike-level data on over 12,000 labor disputes between 1881 and 1894. We … find that the law affected strike costs and strike outcomes, though not always in the anticipated directions. For example …, laws outlawing blacklisting were associated with the increased use of strike breakers, while the legalization of unions …

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The goal of this paper is to examine the implied penalty policies underlying the remedies created by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in terms of the policies' impact on employer and union behaviors. We present a simple model of deterrence as a means of evaluating workplace penalty...

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Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

Freeman, Richard B.; Rehavi, M. Marit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a "community affiliate" that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet...

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Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State

Gruber, Jonathan; Kleiner, Samuel A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease …

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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play

Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David; Dahl, Gordon B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such that each party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while...

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Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881-1874

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

impact of increasing integration differed for different groups of workers and employers. Finally, the strike data confirm the … importance of labor market integration on the outcomes of labor conflict in this period. After controlling for other strike …

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

Ashenfelter, Orley; Hyslop, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effect that the provision of an arbitration statute has on the wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political jurisdictions and over time using a sample of states. Two...

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

Tracy, Joseph; Cramton, Peter C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

risk as an explanatory variable in a model of the union's choice between the strike and holdout threat. We find that strike … workers would have increased strike incidence from 1982-1989 by 3 percentage points, a 30 percent increase. …

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The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages

Tracy, Joseph; Cramton, Peter C.; Gunderson, Morley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages and strikes are substantially influenced by labor policy. In particular, we find that prohibiting the use of replacement workers during strikes is associated with significantly...

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Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Holmes, Rebecca; Allen, Samuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

One of the most difficult problems in the social sciences is measuring the policy climate in societies. Prior to the 1930s the vast majority of labor regulations in the U.S. were enacted at the state level. In this paper we develop several summary measures of labor regulation that document the...

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