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interventions, whether through compulsory arbitration, “back-to-work” legislation or bans on replacement workers during strikes, and …
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The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers … examines the years 1960 to 1970, a critical period in Britain's postwar strikes' history. The mid-point of this decade marked … leadership in strikes incidence and industrial unrest. Workers made idle were an important symptom of the disease. In the study …
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CEO outside directorships are an important phenomenon; however, little is known about their influence on managerial decision making. We investigate how CEOs react after they observe, as a director of another firm, a labor strike that is plausibly exogenous to their firm. They increase cash...
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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 …
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parental labor market behavior, exploiting the prevalence of primary school teacher strikes across time and provinces in …
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fewer legal protections, and they increase their disposal of production units that are located in states where strikes have …
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We find evidence that labor unions affect CEO compensation. First, we find that firms with strong unions pay their CEOs less. The negative effect is robust to various tests for endogeneity, including cross-sectional variations and a regression discontinuity design. Second, we find that CEO...
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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 …
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