733 research outputs found
Replication Data for: J.C. van Ours and M. van Tuijl (2024) Incentives matter sometimes, Sports Economics Review
No full textSTATA-data and do-file to replicate: Jan C. van Ours, Martin van Tuijl (2024) Incentives matter sometimes: On the differences between league and Cup football matches, Sports Economics Review.
The article is open access:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.serev.2024.10003
The Impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities
Full text linkHigh temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities because workers may experience difficulties concentrating or have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of professional tennis players in outdoor singles matches in big tournaments. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. This result is robust to including wind speed and air pollution in the analysis. There are no differences between men and women. However, there is some heterogeneity in the magnitude of the temperature effect in other dimensions. In particular, we find that the temperature effect is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that the negative temperature effect is smaller if the heat lasts, i.e. there is some adaptation to high temperatures
Racial bias in newspaper ratings of professional football players
Full text linkWe study whether there is a racial bias in ratings of professional football players in Italian newspapers. We find that there is such a bias. Conditional on objective performance indicators black players receive a lower rating than non-black players. This is not a difference across the board but predominantly present at the lower end of the newspaper rating distribution. The best black players are not subject to a racial bias in ratings. We also find that clubs do not have a racial bias in the wages they pay to players. We speculate that for clubs there is sufficient competition to remove racial wage discrimination. Clubs simply want value for money. Newspaper football experts do seem to have a racial bias in their rating of players. We hypothesize that this might be unconscious discrimination related to stereotyping of black players.</p
Mental Health Effects of Retirement
Full text linkWe study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Partnered female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental health of their partners. Single persons retirement does not seem to have an effect on their mental health status
High temperatures and workplace injuries
No full textHigh temperatures can have a negative effect on workplace safety for various reasons. Discomfort and reduced concentration caused by heat can lead to workers making mistakes and injuring themselves. Discomfort can also be an incentive for workers to report an injury that they would not have reported in the absence of heat. We investigate how temperature affects injuries of professional tennis players in outdoor singles matches. We find that injury rates increase with ambient temperatures for men, whereas for women, high temperatures have no effect on injury rates. Among male tennis players, there is some heterogeneity in the temperature effects, influenced by incentives. Specifically, when a male player is losing at the beginning of a crucial second (third) set in best-of-three (best-of-five) matches, the temperature effect is much larger than when he is winning
Temporary Jobs and the Severity of Workplace Accidents
Full text linkFrom the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract. Method: We used micro data collected by the Italian national institute managing the mandatory insurance against work related accidents. We estimated linear models for a measure of the severity of the workplace accident. We controlled for time-invariant fixed effects at worker and firm levels to disentangle the impact of the type of contract from the spurious one induced by unobservables at worker and firm levels. Results: Workers with a temporary contract, if subject to a workplace accident, were more likely to be confronted with severe injuries than permanent workers. When correcting the statistical analysis for injury underreporting of temporary workers, we found that most of, but not all, the effect is driven by the under-reporting bias. Conclusions: The effect of temporary contracts on the injury severity survived the inclusion of worker and firm fixed effects and the correction for temporary workers’ injury under-reporting. This however does not exclude the possibility that, within firms, the nature of the work may vary between different categories of workers. For example, temporary workers might be more likely to be assigned by the employer dangerous tasks because they might have less bargaining power. Practical implications: The findings will be of help in designing public policy effective in increasing temporary workers’ safety at work and limiting their injury under-reporting
Do We Need Crisis-Specific Labor Market Policies? Lessons from Dutch Miracle - Part II
Full text linkArbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitslosenversicherung; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Wirkungsanalyse; Vergleich; Niederlande; Welt
Replication archive Peeters and van Ours (2021) De Economist
No full textThis record contains the replication archive for the paper "Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1974–2018" by Thomas Peeters and Jan van Ours, which appeared in De Economist in 2021. Please read the explanation file first
Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
Full text linkUsing employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive training as full-time working women. Although we cannot rule out gender-working time specific monopsony power, we speculate that the gender-specific effect of working hours on training has to do with gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age female employees work part-time. Therefore, because of social norms, men working part-time could send a different signal to their employer than women working part-time. This might generate a different propensity of firms to sponsor training of male part-timers than female part-timers
Immigrant children in schools have a near-zero effect on the educational achievement of native born children
No full textIn a time of austerity and rising unemployment across Europe, immigration has become an increasingly hot topic. One concern, frequently brought up by the media is that the presence of immigrant children in schools may reduce the educational outcomes of native children. Using data from the Netherlands, Asako Ohinata and Jan C. van Ours have taken an in-depth look at whether or not this is actually the case. They find that, after controlling for differences within schools, that the educational achievement of native children is almost completely unaffected by the presence of immigrant children
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