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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 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 associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …

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Long-run labour market effects of individual sports activities

Lechner, Michael - 2008

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 …

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Work out or out of work: the labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sport activities

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010

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 …

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Are workers in the cultural industries paid differently?

Wetzels, Cecile - 2007

This paper aims to explore wage differentials between employees in three sub-industries of the cultural industries compared with the main (1-digit level) industry to which they belong. We use data from the Wage Indicator Questionnaire 2001/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in...

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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …

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Keeping in touch: a benefit of public holidays

Merz, Joachim; Osberg, Lars - 2006

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...

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With or without you: Divorce rates and intra-household allocation of time

Tabasso, Domenico - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...

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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual?s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies : From Households to Individuals

Bargain, Olivier - 2004

In this paper, we analyze the impact of a tax policy change on social welfare by using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a microsimulation program of the French taxbenefit system. The collective approach allows studying the intrahousehold distribution so that for the first...

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Labour supply and taxes

Meghir, Costas; Phillips, David - 2008

In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...

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