This paper reports the results of a systematic experimental comparison of the effect of alternative arbitration systems …" awards in the different arbitration systems. This allows us to compare dispute rates across different arbitration procedures … where we hold fixed the amount of objective underlying uncertainty about the arbitration awards.There are three main …

understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …

In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New Jersey with data we have …

The emerging empirical literature on the economics of arbitration has focused primarily on the behavior of arbitrators … under alternative forms of arbitration. This article suggests that it is natural for empirical economists to now expand … behavior are discussed: (1) the decision to settle a dispute voluntarily or to proceed to arbitration; (2) the strategy for …

One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …

about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final … in the arbitration decisions, this evidence of mechanical compromise behavior should be viewed as characterizing the … overall operation of conventional arbitration mechanisms and not the behavior of individual arbitrators in any particular case …