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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
Peeters, Thomas; van Ours, Jan - 2022
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output...
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Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021
leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four …
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance : The Role of Team Heterogeneity
Hentschel, Sandra - 2012
on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …
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Time to Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football
Buraimo, Babatunde - 2017
That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options …
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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success : Evidence from German Soccer
Hentschel, Sandra - 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...
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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices : Evidence from German Soccer
Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2021
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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Measuring Customer Discrimination : Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar - 2018
Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...
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Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL : Short-Run and Career Consequences
Keefer, Quinn - 2019
Similar to other workers in industrial settings NFL running backs can choose to provide additional work effort with possible negative health consequences. We find that the most informative measure for running backs is yards gained after contact, which not only increases total rushing yards but...
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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition
Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023
This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...
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Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL
Keefer, Quinn; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2023
American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important specific injury, concussions, and compare its … subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … demographics, playing time, and performance, we find that whether a player continues to play NFL football from year to year is …
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