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watching television over this period, and uncover a widespread increase in leisure inequality in favor of lower educated adults …. Trends in leisure inequality mirror the general increase in income and earnings inequality experienced in most countries over …, in contrast to the increases in leisure found for the US, we fail to find common trends in leisure time across countries …
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...
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its social participation aspects we define the time dimension as genuine personal leisure time. Based on a CES well …
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Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
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of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … incorporate complimentary leisure, which allows us to analyse the interactions of spouses' retirement timing. This methodology … based model. When we consider the intra-household bargaining and the higher preference of leisure found in the dual career …
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home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of …
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) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure,' 'co-present leisure' and … 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by less-educated individuals documented in … previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisure time. These results are not driven …
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explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomesmore valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems …
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