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The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recession and the economic slowdown in Europe just prior to the COVID19 pandemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616620
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The Female Happiness Paradox
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172192
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466110
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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2005
spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal could not have … relative spice prices, that is, accounting for inflation. It also draws on evidence from Iberia and northern Europe. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466787
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The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2005
The paper provides a comparative history of the economic impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. By focussing on the relative price evidence, it is possible to show that the conflict had major economic effects around the world. Britain's control of the seas meant that it was much less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467339
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"Around the European Periphery 1870-1913 : Globalization, Schooling and Growth"
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 1995
On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473475
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid … has been rising in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322884
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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447326