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Determinants of Internet Use in Iraq
Al-Hammadany, Firas H.; Heshmati, Almas - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2009
The Internet is considered to be today¡¯s most advanced technology and a key to progress of communication and exchange of information, goods, services and technologies. Since its introduction during the late 1960s, the Internet has led to the creation of opportunities and conditions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474131
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The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage
Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this Paper, I explore the relationship between native language and use of the Internet and examine whether English is likely to retain its first-mover advantage of a large installed base of English language websites. I study this issue empirically using a unique dataset on (home) Internet use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504208
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Tendências nas horas dedicadas ao trabalho e lazer: Uma análise da alocação do tempo no Brasil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda - 2018
market work hours, home work hours (household chores), commute and leisure times in Brazil along 2001-2015. Analysis is made … by gender and is based on the National Household Survey (PNAD). Results show that men enjoy more time of leisure than … women, although this difference is reducing over time. For both men and women, there is an increase in leisure time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146750
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Tendências nas horas dedicadas ao trabalho e lazer : uma análise da alocação do tempo no Brasil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda - 2018
market work hours, home work hours (household chores), commute and leisure times in Brazil along 2001-2015. Analysis is made … by gender and is based on the National Household Survey (PNAD). Results show that men enjoy more time of leisure than … women, although this difference is reducing over time. For both men and women, there is an increase in leisure time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942091
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The Value of the Internet for Consumers
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2014
the value of leisure time spent online for which the consumer pays no monetary price and which has become increasingly … important as a leisure activity. We apply a methodology developed be Goolsbee and Klenow (2006), which relies on differences in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055321
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The value of the internet for consumers
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - 2014
the value of leisure time spent online for which the consumer pays no monetary price and which has become increasingly … important as a leisure activity. We apply a methodology developed be Goolsbee and Klenow (2006), which relies on differences in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979940
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The Value of the Internet for Consumers
Pantea, Smaranda; Martens, Bertin - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
the value of leisure time spent online for which the consumer pays no monetary price and which has become increasingly … important as a leisure activity. We apply a methodology developed be Goolsbee and Klenow (2006), which relies on differences in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170069
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Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model
van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M.S.; van den … - 2005
In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325464
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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in The Netherlands
van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M.S.; van den … - 2006
main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the … male; (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325603
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M.S.; van den … - 2008
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325963