There are several different ways that third parties can effectively intervene to achieve resolution of workplace conflicts. Sometimes, when two parties are locked in a head-to-head conflict, things spin out of control and only a neutral third party can unwind the issues to find a solution....

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...

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...