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Fördert sportliche Aktivität den beruflichen Aufstieg?

Müller, Michael - 2016

Eine höhere Entlohnung von sportlich aktiveren Arbeitnehmern konnte in den letzten Jahren bereits mehrfach nachgewiesen werden. Diese wurde u. a. auf eine höhere Durchsetzungsfähigkeit sowie auf bessere soziale Fähigkeiten zurückgeführt. In diesem Beitrag wird mit Daten des...

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Are Student-Athletes Exploited?

Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - 2021

The Supreme Court decision NCAA vs Alston (June 2021) heightened interest in the benefits and costs of participating in sports for student-athletes. Anecdotal evidence about the exploitation of student-athletes was cited in the opinion and the media. Using panel data, we follow two different...

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Different but stable - gender-specific competitive behavior across age

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Straub, Alexander - 2021

There is mixed evidence for gender differences in competing against the opposite sex. We analyze performance data from a sport where men and women can compete directly against each other. Our unique data consists of close to 600,000 observations from around 23,500 mixed-gender ninepin bowling...

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Revenue sharing and collusive behavior in the Major League Baseball posting system

Rockerbie, Duane - In: Economies 8 (2020) 3, pp. 1-12

European football. The unique features of the posting system were a compromise between Major League Baseball clubs and Nippon …

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Performance bonuses and effort: Evidence from fight night awards in mixed martial arts

Gift, Paul - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-11

This paper investigates the role of fight night bonus awards on fighter behavior in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and World Extreme Cage (WEC) fighting mixed martial arts (MMA) promotions. Behavior is analyzed using detailed fighter performance statistics, exploiting variation in...

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Country of origin effects on the average annual values of NHL player contracts

Fenn, Aju J.; Gerdes, Lucas; Rothstein, Samuel - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-11

Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a positive differential for their services due to the competition from the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). In order to control for performance, we...

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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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Defining personnel marketing strategies

Gladka, Olena; Fedorova, Viktoriya - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 20 (2019), pp. 146-157

The purpose of the study is to develop methodological basis as to the justification and selection of personnel marketing strategy based on logical analysis and systematic approach. The strategy is suggested to be developed taking into consideration external personnel marketing strategy and...

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Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans

Caselli, Mauro; Falco, Paolo; Somekh, Babak - 2022

In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a natural experiment induced by COVID-19, we show that the performance of Black players improved significantly with the absence of fans vis-à-vis White players. This is consistent with...

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Competition and risk-taking

Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart; Thon, Max - 2022

In many situations, agents take risks by choosing an action that increases their performance immediately, but that potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition that the agents face. We study a tournament model and...

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