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

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

striking to raise wages. We present data on strikes' frequency in the 19th century, and suggestive correlations between strikes … and wages. The U.S. government supported employers in limiting strikes' efficacy. Strike-breaking actions included … suppressing strikes. We document the rise of these injunctions, pointing to the important role played by the judicial branch in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

and strikes are substantially influenced by labor policy. In particular, we find that prohibiting the use of replacement … workers during strikes is associated with significantly higher wages, and more frequent and longer strikes. This is consistent … workers. The higher wage more than compensates for the more frequent and longer strikes …