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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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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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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016
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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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU
Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
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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