Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...

In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...

Die öffentliche Sportförderung genießt eine hohe gesellschaftliche Anerkennung. Es besteht Einigkeit darüber, dass der Sport in seinen variantenreichen Facetten, insbesondere aber der Breitensport, vielfältigen Nutzen stiftet. Er vermittelt spielerisch Tugenden wie Respekt und Fairness,...

The Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS mbH) has developed a tourism satellite account (TSA) for the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the year 2000.1 In the process of elaborating the TSA the Federal Statistical Office (as an external partner outside the GWS) has been fully...

Der vorliegende Beitrag "EU-Erweiterung im Kontext zunehmender Internationalisierung: Auswirkungen auf den Tourismus" wurde als Gutachten im Auftrag des Büros für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB) erstellt. Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchung sind auch in den TAB-Bericht...

The Federal Institute for Sports Science (BISp) commissioned the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS) to set up a sport satellite accounts (SSA) for the reporting year 2008 according to the international recommendations. Looking on the results of the German SSA for the reference year...

Der vorliegende Beitrag ist der Abschlussbericht zum Forschungsauftrag 'Einführung eines Tourismussatellitensystems in Deutschland' des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit (mit Unterstützung der Europäischen Kommission). Hiermit wird erstmals die direkte ökonomische Bedeutung des...

In 2003 the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS mbH) has developed a tourism satellite account (TSA) for the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the year 2000.1 During the process of empirical compilation the Federal Statistical Office (as an external partner outside the GWS) has...