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Union decline in Britain
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688784
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Coaching, counseling, case-working : do they help the older unemployed out of benefit receipt and back into the labor market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed individuals more specifically is mixed. In this paper we present key results from the evaluation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472481
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Happiness and the human development index : the paradox of Australia
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2005
According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and … happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815403