countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters … youngsters allocation of time to socializing and to reading and studying activities, with Italy standing out as the country where …

using annual distributions of recruits' characteristics from a 1975-95 panel of plants in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy …

individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …