the scope of collective bargaining (outside the U.S. Postal Service and airport air traffic controllers), and the absence … model of relatively low-stakes unionism and collective bargaining that perhaps should be considered as an alternative by …

Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it …

Although employee-representation systems coexist with a collective-bargaining framework in continental Europe for many …

a “war on public sector collective bargaining” and “the most widespread and substantive attack on collective bargaining …Public sector unions operate in politically challenging environments. Recent limitations on collective bargaining … rights in Wisconsin and attempts to curtail collective bargaining in Ohio are illustrative of union vulnerability to shifts …

This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the socio-economic consequences of conflict involvement. The first … essay studies the effect of the Operation Iraqi Freedom and the following civil war on schooling outcomes of Iraqi children … in mandatory schooling age. Several conflict measures which vary over geographic regions are proposed to capture …