employer-employee data on 60,294 employees working in 9,849 firms over the period 1984-2001 in France, we quantify industry …

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper … strike activity is high in France if workers were successful in obtaining relatively high wage increases in collective labour … formation on a macro-level is much higher in France than in the Netherlands. …