An Investigation into the Determinants of U.S. Strike Activity
构建了覆盖更广的企业和工会的新面板数据集，发现企业盈利的波动性而非水平影响罢工概率，工会劳动力个人特征也是关键决定因素，且当地劳动力市场紧张时罢工更可能发生，行业劳动力市场紧张时则相反。
This paper outlines the steps involved in constructing a new panel dataset of U.S. contract negotiations and strike activity. This data set has a much broader coverage of firms and unions than micro data sets analyzed to date. Key findings include the discovery that the variability, and not the level of firm profitability, affects the probability of a strike. Personal characteristics of the union workforce also emerge as key determinants of strike activity. Finally, strikes are found to be more likely when the local labor market is tight, but less likely when the industry labor market is tight. Copyright 1986 by American Economic Association.