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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 …

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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...

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The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Teacher Strikes

Lyon, Melissa Arnold - 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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The Impacts Of U.S. Right To Work Laws On Wages, Free Riding, And Unionization

Bono-Lunn, Dillan - 2021

This paper uses state fixed effect models and a Synthetic Control design with Current Population Survey (CPS) data to identify the impact of state Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on wages, benefits, and union status among private and public sector workers. Despite a modest effect of RTW laws on wages,...

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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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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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