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Measuring the Effects of Arbitration on Wage Levels : the Case of Police Officers

Ashenfelter, Orley; Hyslop, Dean - 2021

wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political … police officers, and individual level data on police officers from Decennial Censuses. The empirical results from both data …

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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration

Bloom, David E. - 2022

This study analyzes a new set of data on the decisions of conventional arbitrators. The main goal is to draw inferences about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final offers, without reference to the exogenous facts...

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Arbitrator Behavior in Public Sector Wage Disputes

Bloom, David E. - 2021

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Is Arbitration Addictive? Evidence from the Laboratory and the Field

Currie, Janet; Farber, Henry S. - 2021

We test for the presence of an addictive effect of arbitration (positive state dependence) using data both from a laboratory bargaining experiment and from the field. We find no evidence of state dependence in the experimental data, and we find weak evidence of positive state dependence in the...

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When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back : Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System

Card, David - 2010

Despite the adoption of no-fault Workers' Compensation legislation in most states, there is substantial litigation over the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability disputes and estimate the model using data on injury claims...

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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Cramton, Peter; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2021

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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Valuing a Homeland Security Policy : Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

This paper reports estimates for the ex ante tradeoffs for three specific homeland security policies that all address a terrorist attack on commercial aircraft with shoulder mounted missiles. Our analysis focuses on the willingness to pay for anti-missile laser jamming countermeasures mounted on...

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The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police

McCrary, Justin - 2010

-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on municipal police departments. My best estimate of the effect of court-ordered affirmative …. Evidence on police performance is mixed. Despite substantial black-white test score differences on police department entrance …

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The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources : Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2019

Should police activity be narrowly focused and high force, or widely-dispersed but of moderate intensity? Critics of …, the police may take advantage of this period to intervene intensively in the most productive location. We propose a multi … on an anti-drunken driving campaign in Rajasthan, India. In each police station, sobriety checkpoints were either rotated …

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