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Blanchflower, David G. - 1990

approach, we find that union density is greatest, ceteris paribus, within establishments in areas of high unemployment …

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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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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

Using data from the United States and Europe on nearly two million respondents we show the partial correlation between union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in the seminal work of Freeman (1978) and Borjas (1979)...

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What Effect do Unions Have on Wages Now and Would 'What Do Unions Do' Be Surprised?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2003

We explore the various claims made by Freeman and Medoff (FM) in their famous book What do unions do? about the impact of unions on wages and update them with new and better data. The main findings are as follows. 1) Private sector union wage premium is lower today than it was in the 1970s. 2)...

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Did the Thatcher Reforms Change British Labour Performance?

Blanchflower, David G. - 1993

failed to improve the responsiveness of real wages to unemployment; they were associated with a slower transition from …

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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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Unionization and Employment Behavior

Blanchflower, David G. - 1989

Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new British data set and shows that, even after the addition...

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Self-Employment in OECD Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …

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The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment

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

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel … estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries over 439 months … unemployment rate 12 months in advance based on individuals' fears of unemployment, their perceptions of the economic situation and …

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Unemployment Disrupts Sleep

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

Although there is a substantial literature indicating that unemployment and joblessness have profound adverse impacts …

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