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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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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...
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Teenage conduct problems : a lifetime of disadvantage in the labour market?
Parsons, Sam; Bryson, Alex; Sullivan, Alice - In: Oxford economic papers 76 (2024) 1, pp. 60-80
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Recession and deflation
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - In: Review of Keynesian economics 11 (2023) 2, pp. 214-231
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Recession and deflation?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …
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Labour market expectations and unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …
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From unemployment to self-employment : the consequences of self-employment for the long-term unemployed
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 1996
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Trade unions
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - In: The labour market in winter : the state of working Britain, (pp. 255-271). 2011
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Union decline in Britain
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
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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...
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