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The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age : A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Ellis, Benjamin - 2015
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of American and Japanese labor law on the relative bargaining power of the labor and management within the context of the new global economy based on information technology. We begin by providing a simple economic definition of bargaining power...
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Public Sector Labour Relations in the United States: Austerity, Politics and Policy
Mareschal, Patrice M. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 4, pp. 450-471
Public sector unions around the world are under threat from political forces. Combined, the financial crisis and austerity measures have challenged public sector unions’ legitimacy. In the U.S., the postrecession assault on public sector unions is rooted in political ideology, with not only a...
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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, union elections, and strikes. Overall, our results challenge the notion that labor market tightness significantly drives U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447309
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ESOP fables: The impact of employee stock ownership plans on labor disputes
Cramton, Peter; Mehran, Hamid; Tracy, Joseph - 2008
increase the efficiency of labor negotiations by shifting the composition of disputes away from costly strikes. Consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283538
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ESOP fables : the impact of employee stock ownership plans on labor disputes
Cramton, Peter C. (contributor); Mehran, Hamid (contributor) - 2008
increase the efficiency of labor negotiations by shifting the composition of disputes away from costly strikes. Consistent with … information ; strikes ; labor disputes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781773
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The Law and Labor Strife in the U.S., 1881-1894
Currie, Janet; Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1998
Economic models of disputes often assume that the rules of the game are well understood and that parties know the possible consequences of their actions. In this paper we show the apparently unintended consequences of state-level legal innovations governing labor disputes that took place in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114004
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The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes
Arnold Lyon, Melissa; Kraft, Matthew A.; Steinberg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The U.S. has witnessed a resurgence of labor activism, with teachers at the forefront. We examine how teacher strikes … affect compensation, working conditions, and productivity with an original dataset of 772 teacher strikes generating 48 … million student days idle between 2007 and 2023. Using an event study framework, we find that, on average, strikes increase …
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Canadian Strike Replacement Legislation and Collective Bargaining : Lessons for the United States
Budd, John W. - 1998
strikes, little evidence is found to suggest that banning permanent strike replacements significantly influences strike …
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Sharing Is caring : employee stock ownership plans and employee wellbeing in U.S. manufacturing
Adrianto, Adrianto; Ben-Ner, Avner; Sockin, Jason; … - 2024
Do employees fare better in firms they partly own? Examining workers' reviews of their employers on Glassdoor, we compare employee satisfaction between firms in which workers own company shares through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and conventional firms in which they do not. Focusing...
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The Influence of Wages and Industrial Relations Environments on the Production Location Decisions of U.S. Multinational Corporations
Bognanno, Mario; Keane, Michael P.; Yang, Donghoon - 2004
Using the Benchmark and Annual Surveys of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad collected by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the authors examine the operations of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) in seven manufacturing industries and twenty-two countries over the years 1982-91. They analyze how...
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