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An Empirical Analysis of Strike Durations in Ghana from 1980 to 2004
Author(s) -
Baah Anthony Y.,
Reilly Barry
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2009.00458.x
Subject(s) - duration (music) , politics , corporate governance , economics , empirical evidence , econometrics , inflation (cosmology) , demographic economics , political science , management , law , art , philosophy , physics , literature , epistemology , theoretical physics
. This paper provides a seminal analysis of strike activity for an African country in investigating the determinants of strike durations in Ghana over the period 1980–2004. The empirical approach uses a set of well‐known parametric accelerated failure time strike duration models. There is a broad consensus among the different empirical models about the role exerted on average strike duration by strike size, the rate of inflation, enterprise ownership, and political governance. However, evidence on the relationship between strike durations and business cycle activity in Ghana is less clear‐cut.