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Productivity, wages, and marriage : a case study in professional athletics
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2017
this gap by using a sample of professional athletes from 1975 - 2007. Our results show that there is little correlation …
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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014
Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...
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Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets
Duch-Brown, Néstor; Gomez-Herrera, Estrella; … - 2021
We investigate three alternative but complementary indicators of market power on one of the largest online labour markets (OLMs) in Europe: (1) the elasticity of labour demand, (2) the elasticity of labour supply, and (3) the concentration of market shares. We explore how these indicators relate...
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Waiting for jobs
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017
Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection and long time lags. To address these gaps and revamp the existing employment data...
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Brexit and labour market inequalities : potential spatial and occupational impacts
Davenport, Alexander; Levell, Peter - 2021
In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing relations between the UK and EU after Brexit. We use a model of labour demand that incorporates input-output links across industries, and that...
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On the effects of reducing the government's role in the labour market: a stylished model for Egypt with some numerical policy examples
Risager, Ole; Yang, Chang-Po - 1999
This paper analyzes the consequences of pursuing a less activist Government employment stabilization policy strategy in Egypt. On the basis of a fairly stylized model we find that a reduction of the Government’s involvement in the economy along with an introduction of mild but binding firing...
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Are athletes on the right track? : the effect of availability of an aAll-weather athletics track on athletics performance
Hogan, Seamus D.; Watt, Richard - 2016
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Who gets promoted to the top? Nuanced personality and psychosocial trait differences in highly structured work environments : evidence from German professional female athletes
Krause, Felix; Chan, Ho Fai; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: April 16, 2021
today's changing environment. Analyzing data from 299 German athletes from different sports contexts, 159 of which are … for the genderinvariant role demands perspective as the female athletes who made it to the highest possible ranks do not … support for the gender-invariant role demands perspective in explaining the relative speed of male and female athletes …
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Sports business and the theory of multisided markets
Budzinski, Oliver; Satzer, Janina - 2009
Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided market has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated by externalities. Examples include payment systems, matching...
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Rugby league in Australia between 2001 and 2012 : an analysis of home advantage and salary cap violations
Longden, Thomas; Kannard, Greg - 2014
Within this paper, we review whether incidences of salary cap circumvention within the Australian professional rugby league competition led to improved home team wins during the period between 2001 and 2012. In doing so, we show that while the salary cap breach amounts can be attributed to an...
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