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Tre strejker i det offentlige – en komparativ lønmodtager-investeringsanalyse

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  • Stamhus, Jørgen

    (CARMA, Aalborg Universitet,)

  • Scheuer, Steen

    (Institut for Ledelse og Virksomhedsstrategi, Syddansk Universitet)

  • Christensen, Ellen Susanne

    (Institut for Matematiske Fag, Aalborg Universitet)

Abstract

From April to June 2008, three groups of public sector employees – nurses, social care assistants and kindergarten teachers – went on strike in order to try to improve their relative wage gains, the strikes lasting between four and eight weeks. Did this pay off? On the basis of an investment calculus, we show that only a well-prepared and relatively short strike with substantial gains may succeed in a positive payoff (as was the case for the social care assistants). Small gains or a more protracted strike (the latter due to the lack of will to compromise) lead to negative payoffs of a significant magnitude. In fact, we can show that the latter two groups will need 10 (nurses) or 15 (kindergarten teachers) years respectively to recoup the costs to their strike funds.

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  • Stamhus, Jørgen & Scheuer, Steen & Christensen, Ellen Susanne, 2009. "Tre strejker i det offentlige – en komparativ lønmodtager-investeringsanalyse," Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, Nationaløkonomisk Forening, vol. 2009(1), pages 358-372.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:jdaecn:0096
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    1. Steen Scheuer & Flemming Ibsen & Laust Høgedahl, 2016. "Strikes in the public sector in Denmark – assessing the economic gains and losses of collective action," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 22(3), pages 367-382, August.

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    lønmodtager-investeringsanalyse; strejke;

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    • A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General

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