This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …

This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending … given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … result is mainly driven by the return to sports as soccer and golf, and not at all by more fitness related sports as running …

' 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 children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …

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 associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …

negative effect. Our results suggest that the commonly found positive effects of exercising or participating in sports on …