for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace … reduced strike activity. However, any such effect is sensitive in particular to the union status of work councilors and time …. There is also some indication that collective bargaining at levels higher than the company can exacerbate strike activity …

The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with … workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with mixed results, but also the joint costs model … is problematic in explaining several stylized facts in the strike literature because higher strike costs do not always …

representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee …

The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers … result of the strike action of others. Using a unique data set of the British Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF), it …

industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …, namely, their tendency to rise when striking becomes more attractive to the union. -- strike rate/volume ; quality of labor …