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on Sports and Economics |
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Issue of 2011‒11‒21
three papers chosen by Joao Carlos Correia Leitao University of Beira Interior and Technical University of Lisbon |
| By: | Charlotte Cabane (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I) |
| Abstract: | In this study I use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while the impact of this activity on job search has not been studied. However, sports participation fosters socialization which, through the networking effect, accelerates the exit from unemployment. Furthermore, there may be a selection effect of individuals with higher non-cognitive skills (which may optimize their job search). These hypotheses are tested using a duration model, taking into account unobservable heterogeneity. Because the timing of participation in sports activities is relevant, various measure of sport participation are tested as well as other activities. |
| Keywords: | Unemployment duration, non-cognitive skills, sport. |
| Date: | 2011–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-00639307&r=spo |
| By: | Charlotte Cabane (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I); Andrew Clark (EEP-PSE - Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Économie de Paris) |
| Abstract: | It is well known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports participation while at school as one way of improving or signalling the individual's non-cognitive skills endowment. We use four waves of Add Health data to study how sports participation by schoolchildren translates into labour-market success. We specifically test the hypotheses that participation in different types of sports at school leads to, ceteris paribus, very different types of jobs and labour-market insertion in general when adult. We take seriously the issue of endogeneity of sporting activities in order to tease out a causal relationship between childhood sporting activity and adult labour market success. As such, we contribute to the literature on the returns to non-cognitive skills. |
| Keywords: | Job quality, sport, non-cognitivr skills. |
| Date: | 2011–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-00639469&r=spo |
| By: | Sébastien Dessus (World Bank - LUNWB); Gaël Raballand (World Bank - LUNWB) |
| Abstract: | En France, le football est devenu une question politique. S'inquiétant du recul des clubs français dans les compétitions européennes, le Gouvernement réfléchit à plusieurs réformes visant à doter les clubs de ressources financiéres plus importantes pour rivaliser avec les meilleurs clubs européens. Ce papier empirique, fondé sur une base de données en panel, identifie les principaux déterminants d'investissement des clubs de Ligue 1 et Ligue 2 et estime l'impact des principales pistes de réformes envisagées. Les résultats économétriques suggèrent que si les réformes envisagées (rénovation des stades, fiscalité allégée, redistribution des droits audiovisuels en faveur des meilleurs clubs) pourraient permettre de réduire l'écart financier entre les meilleurs clubs français et européens, elles ne permettraient pas de le combler. Elles pourraient également être jugées excessives, au regard du coût financier pour l'Etat et la remise en question du principe de solidarité entre clubs. |
| Keywords: | Football, potentiel de recettes, budget optimal, Ligue 1, rapport Besson. |
| Date: | 2011–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00639300&r=spo |