Desierto, Desiree A.Lee, Patrick Sherwin L.Nuqui, John Stephen M.2024-11-132024-11-132012-03https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/1022Strikes are costly to the society and the economy, yet only a number of researches have been conducted to identify its underlying cause, which still remains obscured. The underlying factors, both macro and micro, in previous papers have failed to provide a general understanding of the determinants of strike activity. In lieu of this, this paper delves into Inflation and Unemployment as the core explanatory variables on determining level of strike activity. Utilizing three data sets - an international panel one, a Philippine regional panel, and a Philippine time-series dataset, this paper aims to provide a sufficient and conclusive general finding on the variables' relationship with strike activity. The paper finds that unemployment maintains its highly significant and positive relationship with the level of strike activity, in the international and Philippine regional contexts at the least, and that inflation seems to be unable to show a clear, coherent and significant relationship with strikes in all particular settings examined.enInflationUnemploymentStrikeThesis