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Sports psychology in the English Premier League : "it feels precarious and is precarious"

Gilmore, Sarah; Wagstaff, Christopher; Smith, John - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 32 (2018) 2, pp. 426-435

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How sensitive are sports fans to unemployment?

Reade, J. James; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 3, pp. 324-330

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How sensitive are sports fans to unemployment?

Reade, J. James; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021

We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a … relationship is larger for lower leagues, i.e. attendance of lower quality football events are more sensitive to fluctuations in …

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A reform agenda for improving the delivery of ALMPs in the MENA region

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Leon-Solano, Rene A. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

Given the labor market challenges that countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are facing (notably high unemployment, prevalence of skills mismatches, low labor market mobility, and lack of formal employment networks), Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) could be a relevant...

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Okun's Law, Development, and Demographics : Differences in the Cyclical Sensitivities of Unemployment Across Economy and Worker Groups

An, Zidong; Bluedorn, John Christopher; Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2022

The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and economy groups. First, unemployment is more...

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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a Caeas/Cps Cohort Analysis

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher James - 2021

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...

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The unintended consequences on crime of “pennies from heaven”

Montolio, Daniel - 2016

local crime rates. This policy, developed in the wake of the global recession of 2008-09, was designed to boost local … investment policies, to estimate their impact on both (un)employment and crime. The combination of difference-in-differences and … market and on municipal-level crime rates. While the policy apparently did not tackle the economic recession over the long …

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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - In: Economics letters 123 (2014) 1, pp. 66-69

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"Kicking my way out of unemployment and poverty" : youth football clubs and changing Nairobi's neighbourhoods

Munoko, Saul W. - In: Urban youth unemployment in Eastern and Southern Africa …, (pp. 299-321). 2015

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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2014

We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...

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