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 … with private information theories of bargaining. We estimate the welfare consequences of a ban on replacement workers, as …

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We … strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of replacements being hired. We find that the risk of replacement declines … during tight labor markets, and is lower for bargaining units with more experienced workers. We use the predicted replacement …

coverage by the union. An asymmetric information bargaining model is specified that relates these same variables to strike … probabilities as well as wage settlements. Our empirical analysis is conducted for :he periods from 1970-1380 (strikes) and 1976 …

-strike bargaining settlements in the 1880s fell into one of two categories: either a union "victory", characterized by a significant … declining probability of a union victory among longer strikes. For the subset of strikes over wage increases we estimate a … conditional on a union victory. This framework provides a simple index of employees' relative bargaining power. based on the …

In countries where wages are primarily set by collective bargaining, the effects on unemployment of changes in the …

1990 the proportion of British establishments which recognised manual or non-manual trade unions for collective bargaining …

For many reasons a group of workers may have sufficient bargaining power to claim for themselves some share of any … effect of the threat of collective action on wages and employment in firms which wish to avoid collective bargaining with … created by U.S. labor laws. If a firm wishes to avoid collective bargaining it must choose wages and employment so that no …

relations in much of the Western world. It takes the decline of peak level bargaining in Sweden, the traditional archetype of … centralized collective bargaining, as its key case for study, but is intended to speak to other cases as well. Like many earlier … justifiable drift due to local economic conditions and unjustifiable drift in the self-interest of local bargaining pairs. Thus …