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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program … more time daily in front of a screen on the internet or their smartphone, and that within-person increases in poor mental … mental health, and because the results caution against simply using the presence of the internet in the household, or low …

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1993

This paper compares changes in the structure of wages in France, Great Britain, Japan. and the United States over the last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and...

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...

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The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life : Evidence from the National Child Development Survey

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from all those born in a single week in 1958 in Britain we track the consequences of short pain and chronic pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in 2008, when the Great Recession hit and then five years...

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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...

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Fear, Unemployment and Migration

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

UK population growth over the past thirty-five years has been remarkably low in comparison with other countries; the population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries. The UK population has grown at a faster pace since the turn of the millennium. Both the...

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Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 1997

This paper uses broadly comparable micro data at the level of the individual to examine the extent to which union relative wage effects vary across groups and through time. The main findings may be summarized as follows. a) The union wage gap averages 15% in the US and 10% in Great Britain. b)...

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Estimating a Wage Curve for Britain 1973-1990

Blanchflower, David G. - 1994

Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the analysis of highly aggregated time-series data sets. However, it has proved difficult with such methods to uncover statistically reliable models. This paper adopts a different...

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Did the Thatcher Reforms Change British Labour Performance?

Blanchflower, David G. - 1993

In this paper we evaluate the success of policies that were implemented in the 1980s that were designed to improve the workings of the UK labour market. Our primary conclusion is that the Thatcherite reforms succeeded in their goals of weakening union power; may have marginally increased...

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