The effects of laws banning the use of strike replacements has been theoretically modeled using private information bargaining models. These models predict that strike replacement restrictions will increase wages, but assume that the capital stock is constant. This article develops a sequential...

The effect of strike replacement, or striker replacement, bans has been theoretically modeled using private information bargaining models which predict that strike replacement restrictions will increase wages. These models, however, assume that the capital stock is constant. This paper develops...

This paper empirically studies union effects on the performance of, and employment relations in, China’s private enterprises. The study finds a positive and statistically significant union effect on labor productivity, but not on profitability. It further finds that unions lead to better...