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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...

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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

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Ten Do It Better, Do They? An Empirical Analysis of an Old Football Myth

Caliendo, Marco; Radic, Dubravko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense … implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be …

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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the "Dying Seconds" of International Football Matches

Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment

Burger, Rulof; van der Berg, Servaas; von Fintel, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer allowed to accept students who were more than two years older than the correct grade-age and students...

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Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Black South Africans

Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans – changes in correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in intergenerational transmission of education over the last...

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Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa

Pugatch, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa

Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...

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