Article in the March 2026 issue of the #journalofafricaneconomies
'Wellbeing of the Young in Africa'
✒David G Blanchflower & @alexbryson.bsky.social
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Hope to see some colleagues and students at the Fair Work Agency/UCL conference on May 13/14. I'll be speaking about the role of trade unions on the second day @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Using new nationally-representative data where workers report their actual use of AI we examine the association between intensity of AI use and worker wellbeing in Finland. What do we find? Check out our new paper here: www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u... @sriucl.bsky.social rfberlin.bsky.social
How important is survey mode in understanding age patterns in subjective wellbeing and illbeing? Find out here: www.nber.org/papers/w35058 @sriucl.bsky.social @nber.org
What does the first meta-analysis of the gender wage gap in the UK tell us? Check out our new Rockwool Foundation Discussion Paper here www.rfberlin.com/network-pape... @sriucl.bsky.social
How important is competition in driving productivity growth between union locals in the USA? Find out here in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sriucl.bsky.social
Are you a personnel economist? Why not join us next spring in Tokyo for the 2027 COPE Conference. Submit your extended abstract now. Full details are here: personneleconomics.eu/cope2027/
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How does trust and cooperation play out in labor relations? Check out this primer co-authored with Rafael Gomez and Paul Willman: docs.iza.org/dp18577.pdf
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Our new paper tracks a steady deterioration in the mental ill-health in the UK since the late 1990s, especially among the young. There was a big uptick around the Great Recession, and again around 2012 with the arrival of smartphones onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sriucl.bsky.social
Maria Koumenta, Steve Machin and I are co-editing this Special Issue of the British Journal of Industrial Relations in memory of Professor Sir David Metcalf CBE. Here is the call for papers:
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Using panel data on union locals in the United States we examine the dynamics of the union sector, investigating the impact of inter-union competition on locals' productivity and survival. We find lo...
Using several data sets for the UK we track rising perceptions of mental well-being among the working-age population in the UK. The trend is apparent among all age groups and for men and women, but i...
