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risk as an explanatory variable in a model of the union's choice between the strike and holdout threat. We find that strike … workers would have increased strike incidence from 1982-1989 by 3 percentage points, a 30 percent increase …
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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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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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experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect student performance. I present new estimates from a sample of strikes …
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This paper examines the effect of energy production on newborn health using a recent strike that affected oil … newborns, particularly for those exposed to the strike during the third trimester of pregnancy. Back …
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prediction with data from a sudden strike in 2003 by Los Angeles transit workers. Estimating a regression discontinuity design …
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We explore umpires' racial/ethnic preferences in the 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. This effect only...
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historians have agreed are pivotal in American history' during the period 1925-1937. Using information we collected on strike … negative share price reactions than other strikes. Also, our analysis shows that most of the news' in a strike seems to be … incorporated very early on in the strike. Our analysis strongly suggests that although the financial markets generally expected …
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level of profitability of the firm. The implications of the model are then tested using data on wage outcomes, strike … probabilities, and strike durations for a large sample of collective bargaining agreements. Negotiated wages are found to depend … the model, however, there is no evidence of a systematic relation between wages and strike outcomes. Increases in …
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Recent developments in the thoery of strategic bargaining demonstrate howinformational asymmetries can lead to prolonged and costly bargaining. These models can be applied to contract negotiations between unions and firms yielding an economic theory of strikes. To date, however, few empirical...
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