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Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2000

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Blanchflower, David G. - 1989

uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new … association between poor employment performance and the presence of trade unions. The union employment growth differential is …

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471289

Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 1997

This paper uses broadly comparable micro data at the level of the individual to examine the extent to which union relative wage effects vary across groups and through time. The main findings may be summarized as follows. a) The union wage gap averages 15% in the US and 10% in Great Britain. b)...

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Training at Work : A Comparison of U.S. and British Youths

Blanchflower, David G. - 1992

This paper compares and contrasts the structure of pest school training for young nonuniversity graduates in Britain and the United States. We utilize two unique longitudinal surveys in these countries on young people to examine four issues: the extent of pest school training in Britain and the...

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 1991

This paper examines the pattern of self-employment in Australia and the United States. We particularly focus on the … movement of young people in and out of self-employment using comparable longitudinal data from the two countries. We find that … workers, males and older workers were particularly likely to move to self-employment. We also find that previous firm size …

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Going Different Ways : Unionism in the U.S. and Other Advanced O.E.C.D. Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 1990

In this paper we compare the changing pattern of unionization in OECD countries, review existing evidence, and present new information on cross-country differences in union-nonunion differentials in labor market outcomes, largely from the micro data files of the International Social Survey...

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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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Happiness and Aging in the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

The past decade has brought increasing concern, in countries all over the world, of declines in mental health and well-being. Across countries, chronic depression and suicide rates peak in midlife. In the U.S., deaths of despair are most likely to occur in these years, and the patterns are...

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The Economics of Walking About and Predicting US Downturns

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

predicts recession, as does two consecutive months of employment rate declines. The economic situation in 2021 is exceptional … employment rates to recover quickly from the huge downturn in 2020. However, downward movements in consumer expectations in the … last six months suggest the economy in the United States is entering recession now (Autumn 2021) even though employment and …

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