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Is Arbitration Addictive? Evidence from the Laboratory and the Field

Currie, Janet; Farber, Henry S. - 2021

We test for the presence of an addictive effect of arbitration (positive state dependence) using data both from a laboratory bargaining experiment and from the field. We find no evidence of state dependence in the experimental data, and we find weak evidence of positive state dependence in the...

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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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Industrial Actions in Schools : Strikes and Student Achievement

Baker, Michael - 2011

While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...

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The Effects of Product Market Competition on Collective Bargaining Agreements : The Case of Foreign Competition in Canada

Abowd, John M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021

employment in the presence of foreign competition shocks. We exploit the fact that in a small open economy such as Canada the …

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Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities

Klaff, Daniel B.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2021

Our study is the first study that addresses the impact of collective bargaining coverage on salaries in academia for employees other than faculty. We use data from a 1997-98 study on the costs of staffing in higher education conducted by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers...

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The Effects of International Competiton on Collective Bargaining Outcomes : a Comparison of the United States and Canada

Abowd, John M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021

employment from the sixties to the mid-eighties for the United States and Canada. Both value-based and pricebased measures of … domestic market. The import effect on wage rates is also negative for the United States but not for Canada. The import wage … for the U.S. and ambiguous for Canada. For Canada, we also estimate world price effects. Increases in the world import …

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Measuring the Effects of Arbitration on Wage Levels : the Case of Police Officers

Ashenfelter, Orley; Hyslop, Dean - 2021

In this paper we provide an empirical evaluation of the effect that the provision of an arbitration statute has on the wage levels of police officers. We analyze the effect of arbitration on wages by comparing wage levels across political jurisdictions and over time using a sample of states. Two...

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