strike induces car speed to decrease only marginally on the highway ring road (by 3 percent) but substantially on inner city … roads (by 10 percent). During rush hour, the strike effect is much more pronounced. The congestion relief benefit is …

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 …

wagedynamics are linear if strike is credible (low wage shares) and nonlinearotherwise (high wage shares). The model can admit two … steady state wageshares. The one under strike is not credible exceeds the one under strikeis credible. A wage decrease can … occur if strike is credible, but neverwhen strike is not credible. In the limit as time between bargaining roundsvanishes …