La duración de las huelgasevidencia empírica para España

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the determinants of strike duration in Spain using registry data from the Estadística de Huelgas y Cierres Patronales (Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs). The empirical methodology includes estimation of duration models. The results show that strikes are shorter the higher the number of strikers, in the presence of several applicable agreements to strike units, in Autonomous Community strikes, when the strike motive is solidarity, in financial services and property developer, electricity, water and gas, cars and transport material, chemical and refineries, hotel trade, paper and printing, education and research, and metals transformation, when Ceuta, Castilla-León, Castilla-La Mancha, La Rioja, Asturias, Cataluña, Madrid and Andalucía are involved, in general after 1986-1987, and in the second and fourth quarters of the year. They last longer in the presence of minimum services, when the strike call comes from the ELA-STV union, from unions different to UGT, CCOO, ELA-STV, INTG, USO and CNT, and from neighbourhood assemblies and politic formations, when the support to the strike call is high, if they affect to a firm or a sector, when the strike motive is collective bargaining, related to wages, organization and working conditions, and violations of agreements or legal rules, in the private sector, in the fishing sector, and involving Extremadura and Cantabria.