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

This paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries. It argues that young people aged 16-25 have been particularly hard hit during the current recession. Using the USA and UK as cast studies, it analyses both causes and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data....

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Young people and the Great Recession

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

This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment using microdata. We argue that there is convincing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259467

International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008

National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...

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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 entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT …-intensive industries depending on the exact measures, though not since the late 1990s. Most challenging to this paradigm, and our … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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On the persistence of the China shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...

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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...

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