The Accord and Strikes: An International Perspective

Len Perry () and Pat Wilson ()

Economics Working Papers from School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between Australian and world strike activity between 1960 and 1998. Appropriate indices are constructed for which evidence of a long-run equilibrium relation is found between Australian and world strike activity. The evidence suggests Australian and world strike rate indices are cointegrated with a breakpoint in that relation occurring sometime in the very late 1960s or early 1970s. No breakpoints are in evidence before, during or after the period (1983-96) of the Accord. This result is consistent with the view that the decline in strike activity in Australia during the period of the Accord was not a singularly Australian experience.

Keywords: The Accord; strikes; strike activity; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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