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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs
Bell, David N.F. - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by … to employment. We also examine a number of questions about the impact of globalization that respondents across many …
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A Cross-Country Study of Union Membership
Blanchflower, David G. - 2006
This paper examines changes in unionization that have occurred over the last decade or so using individual level micro data on twenty seven of the thirty OECD countries, with particular emphasis on Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Micro-data is also used to model union...
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Wellbeing Rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …
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The Wage Curve after the Great Recession
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022
Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are...
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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …
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