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Performance, Diversity and National Identity Evidence from Association Football

Tovar, Jorge - 2018

performance. Detailed worker-level data from a highly globalized industry, association football, shows a non-linear relationship …

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Play On? Business Strategy, Labour Market Regulation and Game Development in Australian Football

Macdonald, Robert D. - 2020

The Australian Football League’s core operational strategy - equalization policy - seeks to promote competitive balance …

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Talent Concentration and Competitive Imbalance in European Soccer

Frick, Bernd; Quansah, Tommy Kweku; Lang, Markus - 2022

While most of the available literature on competitive balance analyzes its impact on ticket sales and TV audiences, little empirical research is available that analyzes the observable variation in competitive balance across leagues and over time. This paper studies the concentration of player...

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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer

Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022

This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...

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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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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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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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Fading Shooting Stars – The Relative Age Effect, Misallocation of Talent, and Returns to Training in German Elite Youth Soccer

Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2023

Key date assessments are common in the contexts of firms’ hiring decisions, the educational system, and professional sports. In talent selection, it is very likely that there is a difference between current and potential performance levels. This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in...

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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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School entry, afternoon care and mothers' labour supply

Gambaro, Ludovica; Marcus, Jan; Peter, Frauke - 2016

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school, particularly in countries where the school day ends...

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