Language, Laws, and Labor Contracts in the 20th Century

这项研究将有助于我们理解企业和工人如何分配权力，以及如何组织权力以提高生产率和减少冲突。这些问题可以追溯到罗纳德科斯和赫伯特西蒙，以及劳动经济学的制度主义学派。在经济学之外，我们的研究结果将与劳动和法律的历史、社会学以及美国政治发展中关注法律在劳动合同中的作用的大量文献相关。我们新的劳动法和劳动合同的综合数据集将是有价值的定性和定量的研究人员感兴趣的计算语言学，合同，法律和美国工会在20世纪世纪的历史。与成功的企业-工人关系相关的生产率提高不仅依赖于书面协议的条款，还依赖于解释、执行和详细说明此类协议的背景法律的机构。本研究的目的是通过构建和分析一个新的集体谈判协议数据集，探讨法律和合同的互补作用。在将合同数据与法律和公司数据合并后，我们使用自然语言处理工具来提取对经济结果至关重要的法规、法院案件和合同的文本特征。然后，我们解决两个核心问题。第一，法律是否影响书面合同？第二，合同会影响经济绩效吗？

This resaerch will contribute to our understanding of how firms and workers allocate authority, and how this can be organized to increase productivity and reduce conflict. These questions go back to Ronald Coase and Herbert Simon, as well as the institutionalist school of labor economics. Outside of economics, our results will relate to the large literature in labor and legal history, sociology, and American political development that has concerned itself with the role of the law in the labor contract. Our new integrated data set of labor laws and labor contracts will be of value to both qualitative and quantitative researchers interested in computational linguistics, contracts, law, and the history of U.S. labor unions in the 20th century. The productivity gains associated with successful firm-worker relationships rely not only on the terms of written agreements, but also on the background legal institutions that interpret, enforce, and elaborate such agreements. The purpose of this research is to explore the complementary roles of laws and contracts through the construction and analysis of a new data set on collective bargaining agreements. After merging the contract data with data on laws and firms, we use natural language processing tools to extract those textual features of statutes, court cases, and contracts that matter for economic outcomes. We then address two central questions. First, does the law affect written contracts? Second, do contracts affect economic performance?