Results 251 to 260 of about 76,394 (313)

Strike Duration and Strike Size

The Canadian Journal of Economics, 1993
Some theories of strike activity suggest that the settlement probability of a strike depends on the number of workers involved in the strike. Additionally, much recent em- pirical research on strikes has been constrained by data availability to look only at strikes in large bargaining units.
Alan Harrison, Mark Stewart
openaire   +1 more source

Physician Strikes

Chest, 2014
Throughout medical history, physicians have rarely formed unions and/or carried out strikes. In a profession faced with the turmoil of health reform and increasing pressure to change their practices and lifestyles, will physicians resort to unionization for collective bargaining, and will a strike weapon be used to fight back against the array of ...
Stephen L, Thompson, J Warren, Salmon
openaire   +2 more sources

Starfish on Strike

2010
This paper improves the price-performance ratio of ECM, the elliptic-curve method of integer factorization. In particular, this paper constructs "a = -1" twisted Edwards curves having Q-torsion group Z/2 x Z/4, Z/8, or Z/6 and having a known non-torsion point; demonstrates that, compared to the curves used in previous ECM implementations, some of the ...
Bernstein, D.J., Birkner, P., Lange, T.
openaire   +4 more sources

A Right to Strike?

Nursing Ethics, 1997
During 1995, there was a major shift in the United Kingdom in the debate of whether it is right for nurses to strike. The Royal College of Nursing, the former advocate of a non-industrial action policy, moved towards the UNISON position that industrial action is ethical in some circumstances, as well as the necessary thing to do.
K, Jennings, G, Western
openaire   +2 more sources

Strike Pay and Employers' Strike Insurance

Metroeconomica, 2000
The consequences of strike pay for employees and of an employers' strike insurance fund are analysed in a two‐period screening model of labour disputes with private information of the firm. It is shown that the employers' strike fund reduces uncertainty and hence lowers strike activity. If the union's strike pay fund can incur a deficit during disputes,
openaire   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy