University of Piraeus. International Strategic Management Association
Abstract
This work deals with the analysis of Greek strike activity during the period 1975-1994
based on the data collected by the National Statistical Service of Greece. The work is distinguished into two parts as follows: a. For the industry sector, b. For all the sectors.
Conventional strike equations are specified and estimated using the data for all strikes
and the effects of the explanatory variables are compared. The study includes several explanatory
variables, which have been used by many investigators of strikes. To analyze the
aforementioned data, the ARIMA procedure was also used to estimate and forecast models
using the methods prescribed by Box and Jenkins (1976). The logarithmic transformation
of the data has demonstrated a better behavior of the respective models, fact that it was
expected since in a previous work, which was presented in the Fourth Statistical Conference
of Greece in Patras 1991, the goodness of fit of the data in the lognormal distribution
has been proved.peer-reviewe