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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Cramton, Peter C.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...

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Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations

Müller, Holger M. - 2007

Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labor relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that...

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Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894 : New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism

Currie, Janet M.; Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2021

The origins of American exceptionalism þ the apolitical nature of American labor unions compared to their European counterparts þ have puzzled labor historians. Recently, the hypothesis has been advanced that organized labor abandoned attempts to win reform through legislation because the...

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Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881-1874

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 2021

Improvements in transportation and communication combined with technological changes in key manufacturing industries substantially increased competitive pressures in American labor markets during the last half of the nineteenth century. One manifestation of these changes was the widespread use...

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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

Abadie, Alberto - 2021

This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …

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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael - 2010

Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...

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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007

all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : an Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2011

empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We …

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : New Evidence from the U.S. Terrorism and Property Markets

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2013

Since the passage of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, corporate terrorism insurance is sold as a separate … and terrorism insurance. Using a unique dataset of insurance policies purchased by large U.S. firms, combined with … to obtain consistent estimates of premium elasticity of corporate demand for property and terrorism coverage. Our …

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Policy Watch : Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States

Kunreuther, Howard - 2012

This paper examines the role that insurance has played in dealing with terrorism before and after September 11, 2001 …, by focusing on the distinctive challenges associated with terrorism as a catastrophic risk. The Terrorism Risk Insurance … Act of 2002 (TRIA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in November 2002, establishing a national terrorism insurance program …

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