scholarly journals The Determinants of Strike Activity: An Interindustry Analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Maki ◽  
Kenneth Strand
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Strike Activity ◽  
Interindustry Analysis ◽  
Strike Duration

The paper presents an adaptation of a Chamberlain-Kuhn costs of agreement-costs of disagreement model explaining strike incidence and duration as functions of economic factors. The emphasis is on testing this model, rather than «explaining» strike activity. The results indicate the economic model fails to explain strike incidence, but does better at explaining strike duration, given incidence.

An Economic Analysis of Participation and Time Spent in Physical Activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad R Humphreys ◽  
Jane E Ruseski
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Extensive And Intensive Margins ◽  
Cost Of Time ◽  
Opportunity Cost Of Time

Abstract This paper develops and estimates an economic model of physical activity that distinguishes between the participation and duration decisions (extensive and intensive margins). Results from IV estimators indicate that economic factors like income and opportunity cost of time are important determinants of physical activity and affect the participation and time spent decisions differently. Individuals with higher income are more likely to participate but, conditional on participation, spend less time engaged in physical activity. Individual characteristics like gender, race, marital status and having children also play an important role in the participation and duration decisions.

scholarly journals Economic Factors in Liability and Property Insurance Claims Costs

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-280
Author(s):  
Norton E. Masterson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Society Meeting ◽  
Building Trades ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Property Insurance ◽  
Emergency Situations

The original paper with this title was published in 1968, following presentation at a Casualty Actuarial Society meeting. This is another up-date of indexes in the economic model—first report of 1976 and a forecast for 1977. These LPI indexes measure economic factors affecting loss and loss adjustment settlement costs which are incurred after claims have been reported. The indexes measure direct claims costs and not the reinsured excess losses which would be more adversely affected by inflation.This is a Claims Market Place concept of the loss settlement function of the insurance company. Claims Costs (our economic cost of production) result from purchasing of services under unusual circumstances in controversial, severe, hasty and often emergency situations. Claims settlements can take place in court rooms, lawyers' offices, repair garages and hospitals. The legalistic atmosphere is often one of friction and excessive demand rather than of a normal commercial esprit de corps. The procurement of these claims services requires dealing with high cost furnishers of services: doctors, clinics, hospitals, lawyers, repair garages or body shops, building trades, house furnishings.

The Economic and Organizational Basis of Early United States Strikes, 1900–1948

ILR Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack W. Skeels
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Least Squares Regression ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Strike Activity ◽  
Political Variables

This paper examines the question of whether economic factors played an important role in determining strike activity in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. A review of recent research shows one author, David Snyder, concluding that economic factors mattered little during that period and that union organization and political variables explained much more; and another, P. K. Edwards, concluding the opposite. A retest of these authors' analyses, employing ordinary least squares regression and a variety of measures, suggests that Snyder's position is more sound. This author argues, however, that Edwards was correct in claiming that economic factors are major determinants of the extent of unionism as well as of strike activity, and thus one needs to apply a two-stage least squares test of the Snyder hypothesis. When that is done, the results show that economic variables are highly significant determinants of strike activity throughout the pre-1949 period, but for the subperiod 1921–29 noneconomic factors also play a role.

The Biomass Economic Evaluation Mode of Small Towns Heating

2015 ◽  
Vol 1092-1093 ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
Hu Jun Mao ◽  
Xing Long Wu ◽  
Zi Qiang Lv ◽  
Guang Qiang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Heating Process ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Evaluation Mode ◽  
Total Economic Cost

It can clear the various economic factors in the process of the implementation of the small towns heating to establish small town heating economic model. It comes down to the total economic cost of small towns heating under the condition of different fuel types to analyze the parameters in the mode with different fuels according to the heating process. When some kind of fuel is used, by calculating we can conclude that the lowest heating cost contributes to use of economical fuels in the region.

scholarly journals Political and Economic Factors Influencing Strike Activity during the Recent Economic Crisis: A Study of the Spanish Case between 2002 and 2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Pohl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Strike Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Manpower Supply ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

PolThe Great Recession and the upsurge of widespread social movements in various crisis-ridden countries have given new impetus to the debate on the relationship between economic breakdown and the occurrence of collective action. I revisit the issue by examining strike activity in Spain between 2002 and 2013. For a better understanding of the continuities and changes, I contrast two sets of literature on industrial conflict. The first deals with economic factors influencing strikes or, in other words, with the question of whether and how fluctuations in manpower supply and demand account for continuities and changes in strike activity. The second advocates for a look beyond the economy, towards the political exchange that takes place between unions and state actors and which, depending on its positive or negative nature, leads to shifts of the distributional struggle away from the marketplace towards the public arena or vice versa. The findings reveal that, rather than exclusive, the two perspectives prove to be mutually conducive and are most significant when they are combined. The political exchange model is helpful for understanding the rather stable or even declining strike frequency prior to the economic crisis but also the three nationwide general strikes in 2010 and 2012, which represented a rupture in the social consensus. If the general strikes are left aside, the economic variables come into play: an increased strike frequency during the economic crisis is in fact accompanied by a shift towards smaller strikes related to a single workplace, and to so-called “defensive” strikes. This indicates that an actual decrease in workers’ bargaining power was overcompensated by a growing number of circumstances in which the recourse to strike action became a means of last resort.

A behavioral economic model of addiction

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick V. Malmstrom ◽  
David Mullin ◽  
Gary Mears
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Behavioral Economic

Control of Hyperchaos in an OLG Economic Model

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivaldo Mendes ◽  
Diana A. Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model
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