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How Americans viewed their lives in 2005
Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 49 (2006) 3, pp. 48-67
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328235
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287790
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901166
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How Americans view their lives
Blendon, Robert J.; Benson, John - In: Challenge 50 (2007) 3, pp. 5-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003489993
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935007
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729453
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International evidence on well-being
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008
; is U-shaped in age and un-trended over time in the USA although they are trended up in a number of EU countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679395
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566275
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571665
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571667