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Sports at the vanguard of labor market policy
Papps, Kerry L. - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
workers’ productivity levels. Professional sports offer a potential solution, since the performance of individual sportspeople …
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World Cup Dreaming : Sporting Activism and the Incrementalist Advancement of Sexual Equality Through Association Football
Peltz-Steele, Richard J. - 2016
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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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues
LaCroix, Sumner; Kawaura, Akihiko - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2011
Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their rosters in the early 1950s, with the average number of foreign players per team reaching 5.79 in 2004. One reason for their increased use of foreign players was that foreign hitters substantially...
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Race and Ethnicity Assessment in Baseball Card Markets
Fort, Rodney; Gill, Andrew - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 1, pp. 21-38
There is a growing literature investigating fan discrimination revealed in markets for sports memorabilia. Such …
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The Migration of African Americans to the Canadian Football League during the mid-20th Century: An Escape from Discrimination?
Longley, Neil; Crosset, Todd; Jefferson, Steve - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE - 2007
The institutional racial discrimination that existed in American professional team sports prior to World War II …
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Integration of North and South American Players in Japan's Professional Baseball Leagues Teams in Japan’s two professional baseball leagues began to add foreign players to their ro...
Kawaura, Akihiko; La Croix, Sumner - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2011
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Desperately seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...
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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital : positive contributions to cognitive and non-cognitive skills justify public support of youth sports
Leeds, Michael A. - 2015
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents … may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if … participating in sports is an investment good as well as a consumption good and adds to students' human capital. The value of sports …
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Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo were treated less favorably than Japanese born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469730