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Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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From the dual apprenticeship system to a dual labor market? The German high-skill equilibrium and the service economy
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269341
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From the Dual Apprenticeship System to a Dual Labor Market? The German High-Skill Equilibrium and the Service Economy
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004566
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Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labour Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices
Euwals, Rob; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper …
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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
Baert, Stijn; Amez, Simon - 2016
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...
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Twelve Eyes See More Than Eight. Referee Bias and the Introduction of Additional Assistant Referees in Soccer
Verstraeten, Olivier; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we analyse a unique database with pre- and...
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Home Advantage in European International Soccer: Which Dimension of Distance Matters?
van Damme, Nils; Baert, Stijn - 2019
We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches...
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Player Dismissal and Full Time Results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League
De Meyere, Arne; Vanruymbeke, Ward; Baert, Stijn - 2018
This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …
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