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Injury risk, concussions, race, and pay in the NFL

Keefer, Quinn A. W.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2023

American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important specific injury, concussions, and compare its … subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … demographics, playing time, and performance, we find that whether a player continues to play NFL football from year to year is …

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Player Nationality and Transfer Fee Premiums in Association Football

Depken, Craig A.; Frei, Alexander - 2023

This paper analyzes whether some clubs pay a premium over estimated market value for players of certain nationalities, with a particular focus on whether Brazilian players enjoy the largest premium over market value. The results suggest that, on average, soccer clubs pay higher transfer fees for...

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Human Capital Equity Returns : Evidence from the National Football League

Moore, Jordan - 2020

traded. I analyze ten transactions between April 2014 and July 2016 in which ten active players in the National Football …

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The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers

Peeters, Thomas; Szymanski, Stefan; Terviö, Marko - 2017

labor market for football managers, we find that in around one quarter of all cases, where a firm hires an experienced …

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Racially Congruent Leadership and Firm Performance : Evidence from Collegiate Football

Mills, Brian; Bopp, Trevor; Turick, Robert - 2023

Athletic Association Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision setting. We first identify the effects of leadership representation …

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Mind the absent gap : gender-specific competitiveness in non-professional sports

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Straub, Alexander - 2019 - This version: March 26, 2019

There is wide evidence for gender differences in competitiveness and performance under pressure from experimental economics and single-sex professional sports. We analyze these differences in a sport with direct gender competition. Our unique data consists of over 500,000 observations from...

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? : evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

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The Wage Effect of Workplace Sexual Harassment : Evidence for Women in Europe

Zacchia, Giulia; Zuazu, Izaskun - 2023

This article contributes to the literature on wage discrimination by examining the consequences of sexual harassment in the workplace on wages for women in Europe. We model the empirical relationship between sexual harassment risk and wages for European women employees using individual-level...

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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

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