While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little … experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect student performance. I present new estimates from a sample of strikes … characteristics at the school cohort level. The results indicate that teacher strikes in grades 2 or 3 have on average a small …

umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire …

Combining information from labor historians and using techniques from finance we analyze the strikes that labor … the effects of major strikes between the world wars on detailed industry stock prices. We find that strikes have large …, negative effects on industry stock value. We also find that longer strikes, violent strikes, strikes where unions win …

This paper describes a simple model of labor disputes based on the hypothesis that unions use strikes to infer the … unemployment are found to decrease the probability of strikes, while increases in industry selling prices increase the probability …

strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of replacements being hired. We find that the risk of replacement declines …

economic theory of strikes. To date, however, few empirical tests of these models have been carried out. This paper presents … some evidence supporting this view of strikes. A set of predictions concerning the incidence and unconditional duration of … strikes is derived from a simple bargaining model where the union is uncertain about the firm's future profitability. These …

probabilities as well as wage settlements. Our empirical analysis is conducted for :he periods from 1970-1380 (strikes) and 1976 …

Concerns over the impacts of hospital strikes on patient welfare led to substantial delay in the ability of hospitals ….S. economy. Were the original fears of harmful hospital strikes realized as a result? In this paper we analyze the effects of … nurses' strikes in hospitals on patient outcomes. We utilize a unique dataset collected on nurses' strikes over the 1984 to …