Arbeitspapier

Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established through matching estimation whilst controlling for some important confounding factors. The results suggest a link between different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing. However, these vary between the genders and across sports. Specifically, the results suggest that team sports contribute most to employability, but that this varies by age across genders and that outdoor activities contribute most towards higher incomes.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4434

Classification
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Subject
sports participation
human capital
labour market
matching estimation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lechner, Michael
Downward, Paul
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Lechner, Michael
  • Downward, Paul
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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