strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of replacements being hired. We find that the risk of replacement declines …

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 … workers. The higher wage more than compensates for the more frequent and longer strikes …

, union elections, and strikes. Overall, our results challenge the notion that labor market tightness significantly drives U …

Combining information from labor historians and using techniques from finance we analyze the strikes that labor … the effects of major strikes between the world wars on detailed industry stock prices. We find that strikes have large …, negative effects on industry stock value. We also find that longer strikes, violent strikes, strikes where unions win …

economic theory of strikes. To date, however, few empirical tests of these models have been carried out. This paper presents … some evidence supporting this view of strikes. A set of predictions concerning the incidence and unconditional duration of … strikes is derived from a simple bargaining model where the union is uncertain about the firm's future profitability. These …

study finds that recognition strikes are concentrated where bargaining laws provide little or no protection of bargaining … rights for municipal police. However, these strikes do not increase the unionization propensities of these police departments …

Concerns over the impacts of hospital strikes on patient welfare led to substantial delay in the ability of hospitals ….S. economy. Were the original fears of harmful hospital strikes realized as a result? In this paper we analyze the effects of … nurses' strikes in hospitals on patient outcomes. We utilize a unique dataset collected on nurses' strikes over the 1984 to …

umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire …