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strikes, would not be dismissed as inspired by the tunisian revolution and more precisely by social movements and general … strikes occurring among tunisian workers after revolution. We prove, in the first context, that the profit share to be …
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In this paper we challenge the conventional view that strikes are caused by asymmetric information regarding firm … profitability such that union members are uninformed. Instead, we build an expressive model of strikes where the perception of … offers and the incidence of strikes. Furthermore, while asymmetric information is still important in causing strikes, we find …
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The paper provides a model that explains the probability of strikes by the union's use of militancy as a strategic tool … equilibrium of a repeated game, an interpretation that can explain the probability of strikes even in the absence of militants. …
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This paper investigates whether teacher strikes affect student achievement at the primary school level in South Africa …
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This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the de-cline of collective actions;...
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Political struggles between the emerging European liberal states and the Catholic church in the 18th and 19th centuries provoked the formation of highly oppositional labour movements, resulting in Catholic countries having conflictual labour relations until the present. Based on the premise that...
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This paper demonstrates that dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulations can provide estimates of the economy-wide effects of industrial stoppages. Such estimates could be used in broad discussions of the contribution to economic welfare of improved industrial relations. They could...
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This exploratory paper examines the relationship between Australian and world strike activity between 1960 and 1998. Appropriate indices are constructed for which evidence of a long-run equilibrium relation is found between Australian and world strike activity. The evidence suggests Australian...
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