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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

Fahr, René - 2003

Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and time investments in informal education. Two hypotheses explain this observation: (1) highly educated people have higher opportunity costs of their leisure time and thus prefer...

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Mobility into and out of Poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the Pre‐Crisis Period: The Role of Income, Demographic and Labour Market Events

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2016

and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … demographic events have a stronger effect in the EU‐SILC than the ECHP for poverty entries and weaker for poverty exits; e) The …

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The transatlantic productivity gap: Is R&D the main culprit?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2011

these transatlantic differences may be related to the different sectoral structures in the US and the EU, we differentiated …

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Once poor, always poor? Do initial conditions matter? Evidence from the ECHP

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2011

empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence …

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