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How Americans viewed their lives in 2005

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 49 (2006) 3, pp. 48-67

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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2005

improved the position of white females. There has been a growth in incorporated self-employment rates of white women in …

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Happiness and health care coverage

Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

In this paper I examine the characteristics of adults who report on whether they have health care coverage and of people who say that they are unable to see a doctor over the preceding year because of the cost. I make use of a unique data set, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a...

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How Americans view their lives

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 50 (2007) 3, pp. 5-25

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Youth unemployment : Déjà Vu?

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2010

-25 have been particularly hard hit during the current recession. Using the USA and UK as cast studies, it analyses both causes …

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Public opinion, the deep recession, and the 2010 elections

Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 53 (2010) 5, pp. 14-33

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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Entrepreneurship in the United States

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is … (ACS). In contrast to the official definition of self-employment which simply counts the numbers of unincorporated self … self-employment for the US as a whole as well as in construction. Construction is particularly important given that it …

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and … setting up a new business entirely. -- Youth entrepreneurship ; self-employment …

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Young people and the Great Recession

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … still a strong case for policy intervention to address the difficulties that the young are having in accessing employment …

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