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Does relative income matter? Are the critics right?

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

income. 2) In the West German Socio-Economic Panel since 1984 the same is true but with lifesatisfaction as the dependant … variable. We also use the Panel to compare the effect of income comparisons and of adaptation as factors explaining the stable … – further supporting the view that comparisons matter. 4) Finally, for a panel of European countries since 1973 we estimate the …

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Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy

Layard, Richard; Clark, David; Knapp, Martin; Mayraz, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

At present six million people are suffering from clinical depression or anxiety disorders, but only a quarter of them are in treatment. NICE Guidelines prescribe the offer of evidence-based psychological therapy, but they are not implemented, due to lack of therapists within the NHS. We...

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Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy

Layard, Richard; Clark, David; Knapp, Martin; Mayraz, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …

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Full employment is not just a dream

Layard, Richard; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Europe’s leaders have pledged themselves to ambitious targets for employment by 2010. Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell here present them with a manifesto for how it can be achieved.

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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …

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Wages

Nickell, Stephen; Nicolitsas, D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994

Empirical analyses of longitudinal data on some 66 manufacturing companies on Britain lead us to the following three conclusions. First, agreed reductions in restrictive work practices lead to increases in productivity. Second, controlling for such agreed reductions, there is some weak evidence...

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A picture of European unemployment: success and failure

Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are consistent because the four largest countries in...

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Employment patterns in OECD countries

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by...

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How does financial pressure affect firms?

Nickell, Stephen; Nicolitsas, Daphne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

, using panel data on a large number of UK companies, we derive a number of results. …

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