We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in … China. …

This paper analyses how the scoring systems actually and potentially used in a variety of sports and games affect the …

The issue of Competitive Balance is a central issue in the literature on the economics of professional sports. The … basic idea is that the managers of professional sports leagues must maintain a certain level of competitive balance in their …

. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. Therefore, the analysis of its …

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 …

génération Y en comparaison aux autres générations à l'égard d'une GSS d'articles de sport. Les résultats de cette étude font …

In this study we use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the … unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while … the impact of this activity on job search has not been studied. However, sports participation fosters socialization which …

not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports … waves of Add Health data to study how sports participation by schoolchildren translates into labour-market success. We … specifically test the hypotheses that participation in different types of sports at school leads to, ceteris paribus, very …

This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China …