Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market

Alexandre Mas

NBER Working Paper No. 13138
Issued in May 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

The author is grateful to Alan Krueger, Maitreesh Ghatak, and two anonymous referees for many valuable suggestions and comments. The author also thanks Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Hank Farber, Kenneth Fortson, Jeff Kling, David Linsenmeier, Bentley MacLeod, Jesse Rothstein, Cecilia Rouse, Matthew Weinberg, Pei Zhu and seminar participants at Princeton University, Stanford, Harvard Business School, Columbia, U.C. Berkeley, Dartmouth, Yale, Oxford, RAND, University of Michigan, and Northwestern for helpful suggestions. Jennifer Ferng provided excellent assistance in compiling the data. Financial support was partially provided by Fellowship for Woodrow Wilson Scholars and the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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