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An empirical estimation of NCAA head football coaches contract duration
Brook, Stacey L. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 5/6, pp. 513-531
contract modifications but not the hazard rate of a head coach's dismissal. Additionally, analysis of employment duration … employment survival, these studies ignore the impact of contract modifications. Using an accelerated failure time survival model … with hand-collected college head football coach contract data, I find that race/ethnicity affects the hazard rate of …
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Contract length, expected surplus, and specific investments : empirical evidence from the National Football League
Tang, Meng-Chi - In: Journal of sports economics 16 (2015) 3, pp. 295-311
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Why wages don't fall in jobs with incomplete contracts
Fongoni, Marco; Schaefer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2024
We investigate how the incompleteness of an employment contract - discretionary and non-contractible effort - can … describe how contract incompleteness and wage cuts vary across different jobs. These findings provide the first observational …
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Are shorter cumulative temporary contracts worse stepping stones? : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Kabátek, Jan; Liang, Ying; Zheng, Kun - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 84 (2023), pp. 1-14
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Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking
Wadho, Waqar; Ayaz, Umair - 2017
We explore the relationship between government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with human capital and an unproductive capital which facilitates rent-seeking. With exogenous as well as endogenous time discounting, we find a non-monotonic relationship between the size of...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455710
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Politics in the Family : Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995594
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Do Rent-Seeking and Interregional Transfers Contribute to Urban Primacy in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Behrens, Kristian - 2014
We develop an economic geography model in which mobile skilled workers choose between working in the production sector or becoming part of an unproductive political elite. The elite sets tax rates on skilled and unskilled workers to maximize its own welfare by extracting rents, thereby...
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