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The returns to scarce talent : footedness and player remuneration in European soccer
Bryson, Alex; Frick, Bernd; Simmons, Robert - In: Journal of sports economics 14 (2013) 6, pp. 606-628
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A Strategy to Predict Association Football Players’ Passing Skills
Tovar, Jorge - 2017
Transfers are big business in association football. This paper develops a generalized additive mixed model that aids … managers in predicting how a football player is expected to perform in a new team. It does so by using event-level data from … the Spanish and the Colombian football leagues. Using passes as a performance proxy, the model exploits the richness of …
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The educated underdog becomes the ultimate superstar
Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2017
the best football player in the world). We develop a multi-period skill formation model with selection into elite … levels as adults (educated underdogs). We use detailed data on the performance of elite Swedish football players to …
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State of play : how do college football programs compete for student athletes?
Harris, Jill S. - In: Review of industrial organization : RIO 52 (2018) 2, pp. 269-281
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Career Prospects and Effort Incentives : Evidence from Professional Soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2015
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...
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Temperature and Outdoor Productivity Evidence from Professional Soccer Players
Wei, Xiahai; Li, Jianan; Liu, Hongyou; Wan, Jiangtao - 2022
We estimate the causal effects of ambient temperature on outdoor productivity, using the performance data of professional soccer players in the Chinese Super League (CSL) from 2014-2018. We exploit exogenous variation in the players’ exposure to temperature by matching it with hourly stadium...
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The returns to scarce talent : footedness and player remuneration in European soccer
Bryson, Alex; Frick, Bernd; Simmons, Robert - 2009
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Youth training programs and their impact on career and spell duration of professional soccer players
Radoman, Mihailo; Voia, Marcel-Christian - 2013
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Youth training programs and their impact on career and spell duration of professional soccer players
Radoman, Mihailo; Voia, Marcel-Christian - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 29 (2015) 2, pp. 163-193
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Does Talent Migration Increase Inequality? A Quantitative Assessment in Football Labour Market
Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2018
mobility restrictions on the European football labor market. I develop a simple model and employ an empirical dataset to … global output in the football economy by stimulating the production of new talent in Africa, Latin and Central America …
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