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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...

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

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

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing : New Estimates Using a Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Approach

Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J.; Margolit, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important tool for improving public health outcomes, including reducing childbearing among teenagers. Taken at face value, recently reported estimates suggest that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could reduce the number of teenage...

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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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Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use

Abouk, Rahi; Courtemanche, Charles; Dave, Dhaval; Feng, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has prompted aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Between 2010 and 2019, ten states and two large counties adopted ENDS taxes. Applying a continuous treatment...

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Native Americans' Experience of Chronic Distress in the USA

Blanchflower, David G.; Feir, Donna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Four million Native Americans who identify as single race live in the USA. Another three million identify as Native …

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Is Recreational Marijuana a Gateway to Harder Drug Use and Crime?

Sabia, Joseph J.; Dave, Dhaval; Alotaibi, Fawaz; Rees, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in marijuana consumption will serve as a "gateway" to harder drug use...

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Biden, COVID and Mental Health in America

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

Using US Census Household Pulse Survey data for the period April 2020 to June 2021 we track the evolution of the mental health of nearly 2.3 million Americans during the COVID pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry peaked in November 2020, coinciding with the Presidential election. The...

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