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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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Combating unemployment

Layard, Richard; Nickell, Stephen - 2011

Why is unemployment higher in some countries than others? Why does it fluctuate between decades? Why are some people at greater risk than others? Layard and Nickell have worked on these issues for thirty years. Their famous model, first published in 1986, is now used throughout the world. It...

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Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance

Layard, Richard; Nickell, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 1998

Barely a day goes by without some expert telling us how the continental European economies are about to disintegrate unless their labour markets become more flexible. Basically, we are told, Europe has the wrong sort of labour market institutions for the modern global economy. These outdated...

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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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Unemployment in the OECD Countries

Layard, Richard; Nickell, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 1992

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Unemployment in Britain.

Layard, Richard; Nickell, Stephen - In: Economica 53 (1986) 210(S), pp. 121-69

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Is Unemployment Lower if Unions Bargain over Employment?

Layard, Richard; Nickell, Stephen - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (1990) 3, pp. 773-87

The authors consider an economy in which all firms are unionized and bargain with their own union. If unions bargain over employment as well as wages, employment will be the same as if they bargain over wages only, provided that the production function is Cobb-Douglas. (Employment will be higher...

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