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Has the digital divide been reversed? : evidence from five EU countries

Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2013

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Conscientious consumers? : preferences, personality and expenditure in the UK

Volland, Benjamin - 2013 - This version: 20th November 2013

leisure activities. Additionally, we assess the relationship between dimensions of personality and individual preferences in …

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Privatisations as price reforms : evaluating consumers' welfare changes in the UK

Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2002

This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...

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Privatisations as Price Reforms : Evaluating Consumers' Welfare Changes in the UK

Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2011

This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the policy reform theory (Dreze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...

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Has the Digital Divide Been Reversed? Evidence from Five EU Countries

Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2014

(leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire … effect on time spent on leisure websites and a positive effect on time spent on human capital and goods & services websites …

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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …

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