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traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo …
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While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to … investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental … variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the immigration of low skilled labour has produced human capital …
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We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete …. -- Occupational choice ; sports and games …
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We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete …
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We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find … low skilled immigration in Italy may have hampered the transition to an economic structure characterized by high …
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We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
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study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
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We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
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