that--unlike most other professional athletes--football players are evaluated by position-specific statistics. The authors … level and nature of players' salaries in the National Football League (NFL). Their study is limited, however, by the fact …

school athletes fare better in terms of both components of the compensation structure (i.e., wages and fringe benefits) than …

Highlights the institutional, structural and political factors which account for Italy's high level and distinctive …

, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on … volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …

We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level … show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher … wages. This evidence is robust to many variants of the econometric specification and to addressing potential endogeneity …