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Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic … literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or …
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' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
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Participation in sports activities combined with unique sports resources can provide people with extraordinary … experiences. It is especially true for tourism where sports activities are an important content of stay. The aim of this paper is … to analyse how sports experiences could be planned and managed for the tourism purposes from the aspect of sports …
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Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
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Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201710
We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports … studies in empirical economics, all the papers seem to agree that individual leisure sports participation and physical …
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This study explores the potential to use FIFA and men's World Cup football to advance LGBT rights. Transnational sporting organizations such as the IOC and FIFA operate largely behind closed doors. In secret agreements, the organizations leverage world audience to bend national governments to...
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This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
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Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic … literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193236
What is the impact of sport participation on a society? The aim of this paper is tackling this point by studying whether or not there is a relationship between sport participation and crime. A panel dataset have been constructed for the twenty Italian regions over the period 1997-2003. Results...
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