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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
journal contribution
posted on 2016-06-20, 09:59 authored by Michael Lechner, Paul DownwardPaul DownwardBased 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 and employment and earnings in England. Clear asso-ciations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established through matching estimation whilst controlling for some important confounding factors. The results, which are supple-mented and supported by a formal sensitivity analysis, suggest a link between different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing. How-ever, 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.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Applied EconomicsVolume
49Issue
4Pages
335 - 348Citation
LECHNER, M. and DOWNWARD, P., 2017. Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England. Applied Economics, 49 (4), pp. 335-348.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-06-01Publication date
2016-07-07Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Economics on 7 July 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00036846.2016.1197369.ISSN
0003-6846eISSN
1466-4283Publisher version
Language
- en