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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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we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition …
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these transatlantic differences may be related to the different sectoral structures in the US and the EU, we differentiated …
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-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing …
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discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member …
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Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU …-tech sectors. Our results also show that the US/EU productivity gap has worsened during the crisis period, as the EU companies have …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological change are disentangled starting from the classical economists to nowadays theoretical and empirical analyses. On the other hand, an empirical test is provided; in particular,...
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detected in the low-tech industries. From a policy point of view, this outcome is supporting the EU2020 strategy, but taking …
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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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physical proximity to others and their digital intensity. It is conservatively estimated that about 45 million jobs in the EU …-27 labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22 …% of the EU workforce – mostly medium- to lower-skilled service provision – is exposed to some significant risk. The burden …
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