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All out all the time? : superstars and incentives on the LPGA tour

Leeds, Michael A.; Leeds, Eva Marikova - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 4, pp. 1-24

Using data from the 1995-2006 LPGA Tour, we analyse players’ response to the presence of Annika Sorenstam, a dominant champion on the LPGA Tour at the time. We find that the measures of players’ responses are highly sensitive to specification. Employing course fixed effects (FEs) greatly...

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A Forecasting Test for the Reliability of Wage Data

Reade, James; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro - 2023

provide accurate and efficient forecasts of outcomes — in our case, football matches. Establishing the reliability of such a …

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Universalization of Minimum Wages As A Pipe Dream : Many Discontents of the Code on Wages, 2019

Bhattacharjee, Saurabh - 2023

The Code on Wages, 2019 (‘Code’) seeks to universalize the law on minimum wages in India by removing the distinction between scheduled and non-scheduled employment that has been central to the application of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment claims that...

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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...

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Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL

Keefer, Quinn; 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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C-34/21 - Hauptpersonalrat v Wiesbaden : Article 88 GDPR and the Interplay between EU and Member State Employee Data Protection Rules

Abraha, Halefom H. - 2023

On 30 March 2023, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled for the first time on the interpretation of Article 88 GDPR, which gives Member States the power to provide for more specific rules on employee data processing. In response to a request from the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden (Case...

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The Moral Case to Pay Male Athletes More Than Female Athletes

McGee, Robert W.; Block, Walter E. - 2023

Professional female athletes have long and bitterly complained that their compensation seriously lags behind that awarded to their male counterparts, and that this situation is unjust. The problem with this argument is that it is based on the labor theory of value, a long-discredited theory that...

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Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions : evidence from the National Hockey League

Fumarco, Luca; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2024

We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a noncompete clause). Focusing on the labour market of the...

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Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions : evidence from the National Hockey League

Fumarco, Luca; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2024

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Competition and risk-taking

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

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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