This study examines a neglected aspect of research on industrial relations: workplace disputes in which workers are incidentally made idle because of the strike actions of others. The work uses a comprehensive dataset from 1920 to 1970 compiled by the UK Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF),...

I estimate management opposition to unions in terms of hiring discrimination in the German labor market. By sending 13,000 fictitious job applications, revealing union membership in the CV and pro-union sentiment via social media accounts, I provide evidence for hiring discrimination against...

Das Jahr 2025 war ein ruhiges Tarifjahr. Insgesamt fanden in lediglich zwölf der inzwischen 22 vom IW-Tarifmonitoring erfassten Branchen Tarifverhandlungen statt. Dabei wurden 15 Tarifverhandlungen geführt oder gestartet, allein neun im ersten Halbjahr. Im zweiten Halbjahr 2025 wurde in der...

This paper investigates the timing of labour strikes in Hollywood. The occurrence of strikes, such as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, can make sense when we have the hindsight to piece together the historical details of what created rifts between labour and management. But why do strikes...

This paper explains brinkmanship with infinitely repeated veto bargaining games, where players have private information. In the basic model, the paper solves for two types of Perfect Bayesian Equilibria. First, in Risk-Taking Equilibria (RTE), the proposer is more risk-seeking and engages in...

Some observers of the data economy have proposed that we treat data as labor. But are data contributions labor? Our folk conception of work emphasizes its importance and effort, such that work has a special interpersonal priority and deserves appreciation and compensation. The folk conception...

This working paper presents insights and lessons learned from the ILO's 2025 South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) workshop on digital case management systems. Convened in Bangkok, the workshop gathered representatives from South Asia, South-East Asia, and Southern Africa to address the...

US drone strikes are popular with the electorate and overseen by the President. This pa- per investigates whether the US President uses drone strikes strategically for political gain. We document that US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen are sig- nificantly more likely...

We study the impact of a teacher strike on students still in compulsory school and about to choose their secondary education track. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences approach, we estimate the effect of a regional strike in Finland on educational attainment and long-term...

Marine mammals and other marine megafauna are subject to a variety of impacts related with human activities. Among those, the collisions with vessels (generally known as ship strikes, or vessel strikes) are a significant source of death and severe injuries for large cetacean species, such as fin...

Im Jahr 2024 fanden insgesamt in 19 der zwanzig vom IW-Tarifmonitoring erfassten Branchen Tarifverhandlungen statt. Insgesamt gab es 32 Tarifauseinandersetzungen, die zum Teil schon 2022 und 2023 begannen. Eine Messung des Konfliktklimas zeigt, dass diese Auseinandersetzungen auch im Jahr 2024...

Purpose: This paper aimed to analyse the impact of labour strikes and industry variation on the level of employee-related disclosures (ERD). It argued that the levels of ERD disclosed by companies in the chemical, manufacturing, forestry, mining, construction, and transport industries differ in...

This article analyzes the influence of hurricane strikes on the returns of sovereign bonds issued by Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti between 1905 and 1930. The study uses a fixed effects regression model to isolate the impact of hurricane-induced destruction on bond returns, providing a...

We characterize optimal monetary policy under state-dependent pricing. The framework gives rise to nonlinear inflation dynamics: The flexibility of the price level increases after large shocks due to an endogenous rise in the frequency of price changes. In response to large cost-push shocks,...

This chapter explores theories about the effectiveness of strikes. Starting from the functionalist assumption that strikes serve to adapt the expectations of workers to management´s space of maneouvre, it revises Perrone´s position that reserve power, i.e. the power to secure good wages and...

To understand the concept of layoffs and lockouts under Industrial Dispute Act,1947 one needs to understand the meaning of industry within the Act in true essence. Essentials of Layoffs And Lockouts clearly as interpreted through Act clearly indicate that such activities need to be within the...

To understand the concept of layoffs and lockouts under Industrial Dispute Act,1947 one needs to understand the meaning of industry within the Act in true essence. Essentials of Layoffs And Lockouts clearly as interpreted through Act clearly indicate that such activities need to be within the...

This summer is seeing an upsurge in strikes and threats of strikes, with the number and scale of disputes being markedly higher than in the pre-Covid period. However, these disputes are concentrated in the public sector, or those parts of the private sector that were once nationalised...

Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, assesses the status of political strikes in the EU. While workers' strikes generally seek to pressure an employer, "political strikes" are...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, assesses the status of political strikes in the EU. While workers' strikes generally seek to pressure an employer, "political strikes" are...

This paper sheds light on a neglected reason for women's underrepresentation in politics: crisis-induced gender gaps in incumbents' reelection with lasting negative effects on female representation. We use hand-collected data on 173,339 candidates in open-list local council elections (1997-2021)...