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Childhood sporting activities and adult labour-market outcomes.
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011
It is well known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports participation while at school as one way of improving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359831
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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - 2010
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 signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600950
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Do sporty people have access to higher job quality ?.
Cabane, Charlotte - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010
It is known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, only relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question on the labour market. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470282
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Do sporty people have access to higher job quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - 2010
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 signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826580
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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - 2010
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 signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193236
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Unemployment duration and sport participation: evidence from Germany.
Cabane, Charlotte - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011
In this study I use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the … unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while …, various measure of sport participation are tested as well as other activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359828
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Unemployment Duration and Sport Participation.
Cabane, Charlotte - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011
In this study we use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the … unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757305
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430225
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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2013
when adult. We take the issue of the endogeneity of sport seriously and use data on siblings in order to obtain estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700342
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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
when adult. We take the issue of the endogeneity of sport seriously and use data on siblings in order to obtain estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722842