The duration of contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing

Kennan, John

doi:10.1016/0304-4076(85)90064-8

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“…In demography, survival analysis is often applied in the examination of mortality rates and relates to the length of time a child survives from birth, or the time that a mother survives following childbirth; some examples include Lavy et al(1996), Abou-Ali(2003) andHandaet al (2010). Within economics, unemployment duration and the duration of strikes have often been examined via duration models, such as Kennan's (1985) and Jaggia's (1991) analyses of strike duration in the US manufacturing sector. Most relevant to this study, though, is the analysis of technology adoption, such as that by Dadi et al (2004), Fuglie and Kascak (2001) and Burton et al (2003), and the adoption of privatization policy analysed by Lee (2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Clean fuel-saving technology adoption in urban Ethiopia

Beyene

Koch

2013

Energy Economics

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The heavy dependence and inefficient utilization of biomass resources have contributed to the depletion of forest resources in Ethiopia, while the use of traditional cooking technology, one source of inefficient biomass resource use, has been linked to indoor air pollution and poor health. In response, the government and other institutions have pushed for the adoption of new cooking technologies. This research examines the speed of adoption of Mirt and Lakech cook stoves -two examples of new cooking technologies -in urban Ethiopia. In terms of the duration analysis, adoption has been increasing over time; income and wealth are important contributors to adoption, and substitute technologies tend to hinder adoption. However, it was not possible to consider prices or perceptions related to either the technologies or biomass availability in the duration models, and, therefore, additional research is needed to inform policy further with respect to household technology adoption decisions.

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Section: Duration Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Clean fuel-saving technology adoption in urban Ethiopia

Beyene

Koch

2013

Energy Economics

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“…Common examples include the study of unemployment spells (Ham and Rea, 1987;Meyer, 1990;Addison and Portugal, 2003) or of strike duration (Kennan, 1985;Gunderson and Melino, 1990;Campolieti et al, 2005). Although the research question in this paper is not one of the usual suspects, a duration model is particularly useful for at least two reasons.…”

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The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands

Trandafir

2013

Demography

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Survey with their marriage and residence history from official records. I estimate the first-marriage decision using a discrete-time hazard model with unobserved heterogeneity and I find that the marriage rate rose after the registered partnership law but fell after the same-sex marriage law.In the third chapter, I study the evolution of the marriage rate in the aggregate. My results could be explained by the combination of two effects. First, couples may learn over time about registered partnership and gradually switch from marriage to the new institution. Second, the same-sex marriage law may have caused some couples to turn away from marriage.

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“…This easily observable phenomenon is usually absent from the standard models of trade unions. Although a lot of empirical studies have been done for developed countries (see Booth, 1995, Kennan, 1985, Card, 1990, and references therein), analyzing the duration of strikes, very little work has been done in the theoretical literature aiming at explaining the occurrence of strikes. While the seminal paper on this topic (Ashenfelter and Johnson, 1969), and a small number of followers in the same vein (Farber, 1978, Kennan, 1986, were in fact assuming that a strike was going on, for analyzing its duration as a function of the concessions made by the firm, the most recent literature has taken a game-theoretic approach (e.g.…”

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Strikes and Political Activism of Trade Unions: Theory and Application to Bangladesh

Azam

Salmon

2004

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:The behavior of Bangladeshi trade unions is characterized by political activism, and momentous strikes, called hartals there, have played a crucial part in most political changes in this country. We offer a theoretical framework for discussing this fact, and we test empirically its main prediction by bringing out the political cycle that characterizes the occurrence of strikes in Bangladesh.Acknowledgements : This paper owes much to many people met in Bangladesh during our numerous visits there, whom we wish to thank collectively. We thank also Francesco Goletti for providing some of the data used, without implicating. Helpful comments by an anonymous referee are gratefully acknowledged, without implicating.

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The duration of contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing

Cited by 131 publications

References 11 publications

Clean fuel-saving technology adoption in urban Ethiopia

Clean fuel-saving technology adoption in urban Ethiopia

The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands

Strikes and Political Activism of Trade Unions: Theory and Application to Bangladesh

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