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Market Structure, Strike Activity, and Union Wage Settlements
Abowd, John M.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021
We attempt a synthesis of the industrial relations market structure hypothesis with the modern asymmetric information theory of wage and strike outcomes The industrial relations literature contains a variety of arguments indicating that wage settlements should be positively related to the degree...
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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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Bargaining Power, Strike Duration, and Wage Outcomes : an Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s
Card, David; Olson, Craig A. - 2021
We study strike durations and outcomes for some 2000 disputes that occurred between 1881 and 1886. Most post-strike bargaining settlements in the 1880s fell into one of two categories: either a union "victory", characterized by a significant wage gain or hours cut, or a union "defeat",...
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The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages
Cramton, Peter; Gunderson, Morley; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2022
Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages 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...
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Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations : Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011
This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … percent of a coach's football budget, coaches respond with more favorable rankings of half a position, and this effect is more …
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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Kovash, Kenneth; Levitt, Steven D. - 2021
pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both … data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …
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Favoritism Under Social Pressure
Garicano, Luis; Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio; Prendergast, … - 2021
This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...
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Testing Out Contractual Incompleteness : Evidence from Soccer
Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Comin, Diego - 2021
The theory of incomplete contracting is rival to that of complete contracting as a frame of reference to understand contractual relationships. Both approaches rest upon diametrically opposed postulates and lead to very different policy conclusions. From a theoretical viewpoint, scrutiny of the...
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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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Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894 : New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism
Currie, Janet; Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2021
The origins of American exceptionalism þ the apolitical nature of American labor unions compared to their European counterparts þ have puzzled labor historians. Recently, the hypothesis has been advanced that organized labor abandoned attempts to win reform through legislation because the...
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