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We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. Worker performance improves among those who move onto salaried contracts...
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In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a...
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We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
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and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …
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multiple effects of football matches on crime. …
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nine London teams linked to detailed recorded crime data at the area level to empirically estimate these different effects …. My findings show that only property crime significantly increases in the communities hosting football matches but that … that the away game attendance effect on crime is due to voluntary incapacitation of potential offenders. I argue that the …
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to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration … immigration on crime from our spatial econometric analysis and also present evidence from unique data on arrests of natives and …
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Olivier Marie explains the value of an economic approach to the analysis, design and evaluation of crime …
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that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
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