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world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give … positive effects on the tourism flows between these countries. In particular, after controlling for a set of geographic …
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This paper investigated the causal relationship between tourism revenue and gross domestic product (GDP) using the … countries). Results indicated bidirectional causality in Europe between tourism revenue (TR) and gross domestic product (GDP …). Findings showed that there is a unidirectional causality in America, Latin America & Caribbean and World from GDP to tourism …
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economy by severely inhibiting tourism to the United States. Many sectors of the American economy are heavily dependent on …
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Purpose – This paper provides a comparative analysis of two coastal tourism resorts: Galveston, Texas, USA and Opatija …, Croatia. Both destinations have a history of tourism but have also experienced numerous challenges and setbacks, including war … a phase of rejuvenation in the Tourism Area Life Cycle. In the case of Galveston, tourism development began in the late …
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tourism flows to the United States. The study uses annual data from 1986 to 2011 for tourist arrivals from 50 major countries …. The results suggest that tourism demand to the United States must be considered as a luxury good and is highly dependent … tourism demand is elastic with respect to income but inelastic with respect to tourism price, real exchange rate, and travel …
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This paper analyzes the labor market for collegiate football players and argues that professional football teams have discriminating preferences when making their hiring decisions. An empirical analysis of panel data of 32 NFL teams in recent seasons is carried out to test the effects of such...
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This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
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In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that arises due to which country hosts the World Cup, as this will determine the time games are broadcast...
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This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...
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A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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