This paper tests for the existence of nationality discrimination in the English professional soccer league. Although wage equations have typically been used by labor economists to identify discrimination, the approach may be plagued by unobserved productivity characteristics that are correlated...

This article seeks to improve on previous estimates of the impact of immigration on native wages by using an occupational segmentation approach that directly controls for regional migration and other shifts in the native-born U.S. labor supply. The U.S. labor market is segmented by occupation in...

Ökonometrie; nicht nur der Begriff ist etwas sperrig, auch die Inhalte erschliessen sich nicht jedem sofort. Wichtig und interessant ist sie aber trotzdem. Roberto Pedace erklärt Ihnen, worum es in der Ökonometrie geht, wie Sie Test-Hypothesen aufstellen und vieles mehr. Er erläutert, wie Sie...

We provide new evidence on the importance of venture capital firm skill as a factor in fund performance. By combining data from two sources, we are able to examine how fund performance, measured as fund IRR or total value to paid-in capital, is related to fund outcomes (IPO and acquisition...