Employers and employer groups often argue that restrictions on an employer's ability to use replacement workers during a strike reduce employment. This study analyzes the effect of Canadian provincial strike replacement legislation on employment using province-level aggregate data for 1966-94...

Employers and employer groups often argue that restrictions on an employer's ability to use replacement workers during a strike reduce employment. This study analyzes the effect of Canadian provincial strike replacement legislation on employment using province-level aggregate data for 1966-94...

The effects of laws banning the use of strike replacements has been theoretically modeled using private information bargaining models. These models predict that strike replacement restrictions will increase wages, but assume that the capital stock is constant. This article develops a sequential...

The effect of strike replacement, or striker replacement, bans has been theoretically modeled using private information bargaining models which predict that strike replacement restrictions will increase wages. These models, however, assume that the capital stock is constant. This paper develops...

Opponents of U.S. and Canadian strike replacement legislation contend that restricting the use of strike replacements significantly alters bargaining power and increases strike activity. This article uses data on Canadian manufacturing collective-bargaining agreements to investigate these...