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Labour disputes and the game of legal representation
Fraisse, Henri - 2010
This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
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Why are there strikes?
Chun, Kyung Nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020
Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it was thought that they were a result of mistakes or irrationality. Then, during the 1980s an explosion of research brought asymmetric information to prominence as a significant...
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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
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Striking evidence : the impact of railway strikes on competition from intercity bus services in Germany
Beestermöller, Matthias Gerhard; Jessen-Thiesen, Levke; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses - a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...
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The UK's great demand and supply recession
Jacob, Nick; Mion, Giordano - 2020
We revisit UK's poor productivity performance since the Great Recession by means of both a suitable theoretical … over time, and distinguish between quantity total factor productivity (TFP-Q), i.e., the capacity to turn inputs into more … physical output (number of shirts, liters of beer), and what we call revenue total factor productivity (TFP-R), i …
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One size does not fit all : TFP in the aftermath of financial crises in three European countries
Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021
-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both …-level productivity negatively, high-leverage firms suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy, when they are relatively small … productivity. …
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Coal demand, market forces, and US coal mine closures
Jordan, Brett; Lange, Ian; Linn, Joshua - 2018
Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern United States due to the changing electricity system and the resulting employment losses in rural areas have become salient issues for all levels of government. Previous...
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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
Fossil fuels have shaped the European economy since the industrial revolution. We use new long-run panel data to analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of...
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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...
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