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The rainmaker?! : the impact of investors on transfer fees in the English Premier League
Richau, Lukas; Follert, Florian; Frenger, Monika; … - 2021
Transfer fees in European football have experienced a rapid increase in the past years. Simultaneously, an increasing … number of domestic and recently foreign investors - who are assumed to further increase team spending in European football … - have entered the football market by becoming club owners. In light of these developments, fears associated with an …
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Performance expectations of professional sport teams and in-season head coach dismissals : evidence from the English and French men’s football first divisions
Rocaboy, Yvon; Pavlik, Marek - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/82, pp. 1-20
The goals of this paper are first to identify why professional football clubs replace their head coach and, second, to … French Ligue 1 football teams over the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 seasons. We find that coach dismissal is the result of a drop …
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Death in the Boardroom
Froats, Kim - 2018
Workplace fatalities occur on an all too frequent basis which results in regulatory and reputational risks which require oversight from the Board of Directors. This article reviews questions Board members should ask in order to reduce the likelihood of discussing worker deaths in the Boardroom
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The Impact of Labour Market Trends on the Employment of R&D Personnel : A Literature Review
Giustini, Deborah - 2021
This paper provides a literature review of the impact of labour market trends on the working arrangements and employment of R&D personnel in the business and industrial sector. Current research positively considers the effects of labour market deregulation, flexibility, and digitalisation over...
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An unconventional approach to evaluate the Bank of England's asset purchase program
Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2016 - This version: November 2, 2016
Empirical papers analysing the transmission of (unconventional) monetary policy typically rely on a vector autoregressive framework. In this paper, I complement these studies and employ a matching approach to examine the impact of the Bank of England's asset purchase program on macroeconomic...
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Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and inequalities in household income, physical and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models...
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An unconventional approach to evaluate the Bank of England's asset purchase program
Neuenkirch, Matthias - In: Open economies review 31 (2020) 1, pp. 79-94
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Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - In: Review of income and wealth 69 (2023) 4, pp. 861-885
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Is there a trade-off between job security and wages in Germany and the UK?
Hübler, Dominik (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006
This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic indicators such as regional unemployment rates and the share of temporary contracts is...
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How local are labor markets? : evidence from a spatial job search model
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...
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