Title

Evidence on US Experiences with Dispute Resolution Systems

Author(s)

Orley Ashenfelter Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University)

Abstract

This paper is a non-technical survey of the results of recent quan- titative analyses of interest arbitration systems operating in the U.S. It contains a review of the broader context in which arbitration has become a feature of public sector wage determination, and surveys of quantitative studies of arbitrator selection and decision-making in simulation experiments and in practice. For reasons that still remain unclear, simple statistical analyses continue to confirm a very stable set of operating characteristics for these systems. The data suggest that the variability in the outcomes that exists across arbitration systems is a product either of constraints placed on arbitrator decisions by the institutional setup or of differences in the behavior of the parties in response to different institutional setups, and not of differences in arbitrator behavior.

Creation Date

1985-03

Section URL ID

IRS

Paper Number

185

URL

https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01g732d8977/1/185.pdf

File Function

Jel

C8

Keyword(s)

arbitration, dispute resolution

Suppress

false

Series

1