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Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers themselves. This paper considers another important group of affected workers - those individuals incidentally made idle as a result of the strike action of others. Using a unique...
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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2021
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco - 2015
of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Addison, John T. - 2006
Using international data, we investigate whether the quality of industrial relations matters for the macro economy. We measure industrial relations inversely by strikes - which proxy we cross-check with an industrial relations reputation indicator - and our macro performance outcome is the...
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust : Evidence from Cross-Country Data
Addison, John T. - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
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Strike Three : Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A. - 2008
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity....
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Military Intervention Via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
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The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain
Beynon, Huw - 2020
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
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Police and Crime : Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring
Buonanno, Paolo - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …
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