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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

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dc.creator Fahr, René
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:42Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:42Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20102
dc.identifier ppn:368841952
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20102
dc.description 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 leisure activities which add to their market productivity (wage effect) and (2) highly educated people have a preference for ?high quality? leisure (taste effect). The demand for informal education is derived in a household production model accounting for both explanations. An empirical investigation finds evidence for both effects with the taste effect being the more important effect. Highly educated people accumulate human capital through their specific leisure time use. This increases the skill-gap between higher and lower educated people.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 859
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J24
dc.subject J22
dc.subject D13
dc.subject C24
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject informal education
dc.subject lifelong learning
dc.subject time allocation
dc.subject household production
dc.subject censored LAD
dc.subject Bildungsverhalten
dc.subject Lebensverlauf
dc.subject Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte
dc.subject Zeitallokation
dc.subject Bildung
dc.subject Nachfrage
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.subject Lebenslanges Lernen
dc.title Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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