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The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization
Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While …
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise: Evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity in-formation. Exploiting...
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Downward, Paul; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
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Mozart or Pelé? The effects of teenagers’ participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents’ leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and...
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Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
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The Rise and Fall of Spatial Inequalities in France: a Long-Run Perspective
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper uses a unique database that provides value-added, employment, and population levels for the entire set of French departments for the years 1860, 1930, and 2000. These data cover three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial...
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Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data
Haskel, Jonathan; Hawkes, Denise; Pereira, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more … and (ii) in an accounting sense the skills gap between the firms in the top and bottom deciles of the TFP distribution …
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Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data
Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from the early eighties to the late nineties with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect obtained as a...
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A new measure of skills mismatch: theory and evidence from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)
Fichen, Anne; Pellizzari, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self …-skilled. The availability of skill use data further permit the computation of the degree of under and over-usage of skills in the … economy. The empirical analysis is carried out using the first wave of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), allowing …
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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