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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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Public profit sharing

Schöb, Ronnie - 2001

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited to measures that hurt neither shareholders nor workers. This paper develops a policy proposal, which allows the government to reduce wage costs without changing the income...

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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … reduction explains just about 5% of the observed decline. Due to disincentive effects resulting from the reform, the reform of …

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The distributional impact of labour market reforms : a model-based assessment

Röger, Werner; Varga, Janos; Veld, Jan in 't; Vogel, Lukas - 2019 - This version: 16 October 2019

This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...

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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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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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The congestion relief benefit of public transit : evidence from Rome

Russo, Antonio; Adler, Martin W; Liberini, Federica; … - 2019 - This version: May 2019

We estimate the effect of public transport supply on travel times of motor-vehicle and bus users in Rome, Italy. We apply a quasi-experimental methodology exploiting hourly information on public transport service reductions during strikes. We find that a 10 percent reduction in public transit...

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Police and crime : further evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Cardoso, Vicente; Resende, Marcelo - 2018

The paper investigates the effect of police presence on homicides at the municipality level in Brazil during the January 2010 to December 2014 period. For this purpose, occasional and illegal police strikes are considered as relevant shocks in a quasi-natural experiment. After controlling for...

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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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