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The strongest link in a weak team? Performance of players with and without outside options in relegated football clubs
Müller, Michael - 2016
In this study the performance of players in relegated German football clubs is analysed, in particular the change in … their contribution to team production. The players in the data sample differ regarding their outside options. Different … career opportunities of players may have two effects when their current team struggles against relegation. First, players …
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Estrategias competitivas y gestión deportiva: Una perspectiva de la Teoría Basada en Recursos aplicada al sector del fútbol
Quispe, Julio; Rivera Camino, Jaime - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 23 (2018) 44, pp. 29-59
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Understanding social interactions: Evidence from the classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278385
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Quitting and peer effects at work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282125
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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace: Evidence from a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286862
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Competitive balance and assortative matching in the German Bundesliga
Sittl, Roman; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016
In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time …. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues and changes in players …
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Online but still divided: Inequality in private internet use in Germany
Coneus, Katja; Schleife, Katrin - 2010
In this analysis, we compare the determinants of the first-level and the second-level digital divide for private internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly...
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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010
Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in...
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Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure
Falk, Armin; Ichino, Andrea - 2003
While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility to use observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this paper we measure the output of four randomly selected groups of individuals who were asked to fill letters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261951
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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
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