Showing 1 - 10 of 1,215
We study whether crony governance can extend beyond economic policy to the targeting of state violence against citizens …. Specifically, we examine the logic driving the choice of firm level union representatives who were subjected to violence following … to the regime are associated with a doubling of violence against firm level union representatives. This is the case even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967812
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015128
Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it was thought that they were a result of mistakes or irrationality. Then, during the 1980s an explosion of research brought asymmetric information to prominence as a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299563
Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China's tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout the entire implementation phase, using Chinese contractors for work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845641
We develop new facts relating news coverage, interest groups, and events in the legislative histories of minimum wage increases. First, we create and validate a database of news articles that includes coverage of minimum wages and organized labor. Second, we show that policy changes predict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246773
this be, given that the minimum wage may act as a substitute for the bargaining power offered by labor unions? In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249948
that standard neo-classical models do not adequately capture union bargaining behavior, or union goals and preferences. The … bargaining preferences. Union bargaining over employment appears to be asymmetric around current levels of employment in that … union appear to care more about the employment implications of their bargaining strategies, when they are likely to result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047584
Over the past decade, organized labor has played a significant role in advocating for minimum wage increases. In this paper, we investigate the effects of minimum wage increases on union membership among individuals in minimum wage intensive industries. Consistent with a "freeriding" hypothesis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448184
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288526
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003765832