The German apprenticeship training system is generally acknowledged to solve the youth unemployment problem prevalent in many European countries by providing on-the-job training that often leads into subsequent regular employment within the training firms. Little attention has been paid to those...

Die Lebensprobleme Jugendlicher, vor allem ihre komplizierte Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarktsituation werden zunehmend wahrgenommen. Für viele Jugendliche führt die Arbeitsmarktsituation oft zu schwer lösbaren Fragen; sie sind verbunden mit den Problemen der Bildung und Ausbildung, aber auch...

This article investigates the influence of performance, popularity and power on "superearnings" using a unique panel dataset of Italian football players built on various sources of data. Using OLS, Panel and Unconditional Quantile regression techniques, we find that detailed measures of these...