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Striking features of the Portuguese labor market
Greene, William H.; Martins, Ana Paula - 2002
´s willingness to participate in a strike. We develop and compare two signaling models of strikes: in one, firms are able to monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512984
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Why are there strikes?
Chun, Kyung Nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2020
Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it … asymmetric information to prominence as a significant cause of strikes. After reviewing such long-standing potential explanations … with the union can lead to strikes. Additionally, power asymmetries, reputation-building, and internal union politics can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299563
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"Living" wage, class conflict and ethnic strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel (contributor) - 2008
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
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'Living' Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021
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/10013325044
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Labour disputes and the game of legal representation
Fraisse, Henri - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975529
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Accounting for strikes : evidence from UK manufacturing in the 1980s
Nicolitsas, Daphne - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 14 (2000) 3, pp. 417-440
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001528545
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Accounting for strikes : evidence from UK manufacturing in the 1980s
Nicolitsas, Daphne - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000922365
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The Influence of General Strikes against Government on Stock Market Behavior
Wisniewski, Tomasz Piotr - 2019
Using a sample of 76 countries, this paper examines the impact of major strikes against government and its policies on …-at-Risk metrics. Taken together, these results imply that general strikes have serious ramifications for stock market investors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902724
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Why are There Strikes?
Chun, Kyung nok; Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2021
Strikes, just as other types of conflict, used to be difficult to explain from an economic perspective. Initially, it … asymmetric information to prominence as a significant cause of strikes. After reviewing such long-standing potential explanations … with the union can lead to strikes. Additionally, power asymmetries, reputation-building, and internal union politics can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315184
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Market Integration and Strike Activity
Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2005
We consider a two-country model of wage determination with private information in unionized imperfectly competitive industries. We investigate the effects of separated product markets opening up for competition as well as of further market integration on the negotiated wage and the maximum delay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063279