Examination of a system of compulsory arbitration that has regulated labor relations for all public school teachers in British Columbia from 1937 through 1973. Description of the environment of labor relations in the country; Discussion of labor-management negotiations in British Columbia;...

Previous research and conventional wisdom suggest that the practice of collective bargaining, the availability of interest arbitration, and the use of arbitration when available all have a positive effect on salaries. In this study, believed to be the first to incorporate all those variables,...

This paper examines and assesses the behavioral content of industrial relations research in a variety of social science disciplines. The authors compare economic research on the wage and productivity consequences of unionism with psychological research on worker attitudes toward unions;...

This paper examines and assesses the behavioral content of industrial relations research in a variety of social science disciplines. The authors compare economic research on the wage and productivity consequences of unionism with psychological research on worker attitudes toward unions;...

Discussion of the expansion of the collective bargaining system in the public sector in the United States during the 1960s and early 1970s. Discussion of the types of third-party intervention to resolve work stoppages in the public sector; Comparison of the effectiveness of a conventional and a...

Asserts that compulsory interest arbitration can provide benefits and impose various kinds of bargaining and political costs in a unionized workplace. Bases for denying public employees the right to strike; Discussion of some tests of the effectiveness of arbitration; Components of arbitration...

To test the hypothesis that government regulation of an industry's product market increases union power in that industry, this study first compares earnings and the "scores" of union contracts in airlines and manufacturing, and then compares negotiated wage rates and union contract scores in the...

This research examined the impact of the 3 May 1999 tornado on the Oklahoma City labour market. We estimated time series models that allow for time-varying variance in employment growth. The models include intervention variables designed to capture the tornado's effect at initial impact as well...

This article employs threshold cointegration and error-correction models to the default risk premium. The approach allows asymmetry in the dynamic process that has not been captured in previous studies of corporate credit spreads. The results indicate that the adjustment process is asymmetric...