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Labour Disputes and the Game of Legal Representation
Fraisse, Henri - 2021
This paper explores the prisoner’s dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
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How asymmetrically increasing joint strike costs need not lead to fewer strikes
Pantsios, Archontis L.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with … workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with mixed results, but also the joint costs model … is problematic in explaining several stylized facts in the strike literature because higher strike costs do not always …
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Streiks und private Informationen
Goerke, Laszlo - 1996
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Effective labor relations laws and social welfare
Landeo, Claudia; Niktin, Maxim - 2015
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Dynamic contractual enforcement : a model of strikes
Robinson, James A. - In: International economic review 40 (1999) 1, pp. 209-229
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Immediate settlement or enduring a strike : the choice of signals
Yao, Zhiyong - In: Bulletin of economic research 67 (2015) 4, pp. 324-335
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On the impact of quotas and decision rules in ultimatum collective bargaining
Feicht, Robert; Grimm, Veronika; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2015
We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all treatments a proposer has to divide a pie among herself and two groups of three recipients each. She cannot discriminate within, but across groups. A committee with representatives...
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Discoordination and miscoordination caused by sunspots in the laboratory
Siebert, Jan; Yang, Guanzhong - 2017
This paper combines two strands of the experimental sunspot literature. It extends the rare literature that focuses experimentally on the coordination problems caused by sunspot variables. It also extends the literature that focuses on coordination games that have a payoff-dominant and a...
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Coordination problems triggered by sunspots in the laboratory
Siebert, Jan; Yang, Guanzhong - 2020
A sunspot variable is any random variable that is not related to fundamental factors of the economy but a potential coordination device. The coordination power of sunspots has been analysed in theory and in experiments. However, some have discussed whether sunspots, e.g., public announcements...
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Employment duration and resistance to wage reductions : experimental evidence
Burda, Michael C.; Güth, Werner; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 1998 - Rev.
One of the long-standing puzzles in economics is why wages do not fall sufficiently in recessions so as to avoid increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don’t employers simply force their employees to accept lower wages as well? As an...
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