Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it is known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. Therefore we decided to analyse its impact on the access to employment in Germany. We test the hypothesis that sporty people - ceteris paribus - have access to higher quality of job thanks to the non-cognitive skills they have or they are supposed to have. Using objective measures of job quality, we demonstrate that being sporty does matter and that its effect cannot be award to any other extracurricular activities.Job quality, Sport, Non-cognitive skills

Do sporty people have access to higher job quality ?

It is known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, only relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question on the labour market. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. Therefore, the analysis of its impact on the labour market integration allows us to evaluate the returns of some specific non-cognitive skills. We test the hypothesis that sporty people -ceteris paribus- have access to higher quality of job thanks to the non-cognitive skills they have or they are supposed to have. Using objective measures of job quality, we demonstrate that being sporty does matter and that its effect cannot be award to any other extracurricular activities.Job quality, sport, non-cognitive skills.

Do sporty people have access to higher job quality ?

URL des Documents de travail : http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/CESFramDP2010.htm Paru dans l'ouvrage : "The Economics of Sport, Health and Happiness. The Promotion of Well-being through Sporting Activities" - Chapitre 6. https://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_contents.lasso?id=14306Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2010.29 - ISSN : 1955-611XIt is known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, only relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question on the labour market. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. Therefore, the analysis of its impact on the labour market integration allows us to evaluate the returns of some specific non-cognitive skills. We test the hypothesis that sporty people -ceteris paribus- have access to higher quality of job thanks to the non-cognitive skills they have or they are supposed to have. Using objective measures of job quality, we demonstrate that being sporty does matter and that its effect cannot be award to any other extracurricular activities.Les compétences non-cognitives forment une composante essentielle de la réussite des individus, notamment sur le marché du travail. Cependant, leur impact direct étant difficile à évaluer, peu d'études empiriques ont été faites sur le sujet et plus précisément concernant la réussite. On considère que la pratique sportive est une façon de signaler ou d'améliorer sa dotation initiale en compétences non cognitives. Ainsi l'analyse de son impact sur l'insertion professionnelle des individus nous permet d'évaluer les rendements de compétences non cognitives spécifiques. On teste l'hypotèse selon laquelle les sportifs -ceteris paribus- ont accès à des emplois de meilleure qualité grâce aux compétences non cognitives qu'ils ont ou qu'ils sont supposés avoir. Nous utilisons des mesures objectives de la qualité de l'emploi et montrons que la pratique sportive affecte positivement l'insertion professionnelle et que cela ne peut être attribué à une autre activité extrascolaire

Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

It is well known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports participation while at school as one way of improving or signalling the individual's non-cognitive skills endowment. We use four waves of Add Health data to study how sports participation by schoolchildren translates into labour-market success. We specifically test the hypotheses that participation in different types of sports at school leads to, ceteris paribus, very different types of jobs and labour-market insertion in general when adult. We take seriously the issue of endogeneity of sporting activities in order to tease out a causal relationship between childhood sporting activity and adult labour market success. As such, we contribute to the literature on the returns to non-cognitive skills.Job quality, sport, non-cognitivr skills.

Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion when adult. We take the issue of the endogeneity of sport seriously and use data on siblings in order to obtain estimates that are as close to unbiased as possible. Last, we compare the effect of sporting activities to that of other leisure activities

Unemployment Duration and Sport Participation

URL des Documents de travail : http://centredeconomiesorbonne.univ-paris1.fr/documents-de-travail/Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2011.49R - ISSN : 1955-611X - Version révisée : Novembre 2013In this study we use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while the impact of this activity on job search has not been studied. However, sports participation fosters socialization which, through the networking effect, accelerates the exit from unemployment to employment. Furthermore, sporty people are expected to have valuable non-cognitive skills (self-confidence, persistence, team spirit). Last, they are healthier. These hypotheses are tested using survival analysis and taking into account unobservable heterogeneity. Because other activities could lead to similar positive effects we compare them to sporting activities and still find relevant results.Dans cette étude on utilise le panel socio-économique allemande (GSOEP) afin d'évaluer l'impact de la pratique sportive sur la durée du chômage. Jusqu'à maintenant la littérature portant sur les effets de la pratique sportive sur le marché du travail a négligé la question de son impact sur la recherche d'emploi. Pourtant la pratique sportive favorise la socialisation ce qui - via les effets de réseaux - peut accélérer la sortie du chômage. De plus, on attribue aux sportifs des compétences non-cognitives (estime de soi, ténacité, esprit d'équipe) qui sont valorisées sur le marché du travail. Enfin, les sportifs sont en meilleure santé. Ces hypothèses sont testées à l'aide d'un modèle de survie qui prend en compte l'hétérogénéité inobservée. Les résultats sont robustes à l'ajout d'autres activités de loisirs pouvant aussi avoir un impact positif sur la sortie du chômage (vers l'emploi)

Unemployment duration and sport participation: evidence from Germany.

In this study I use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while the impact of this activity on job search has not been studied. However, sports participation fosters socialization which, through the networking effect, accelerates the exit from unemployment. Furthermore, there may be a selection effect of individuals with higher non-cognitive skills (which may optimize their job search). These hypotheses are tested using a duration model, taking into account unobservable heterogeneity. Because the timing of participation in sports activities is relevant, various measure of sport participation are tested as well as other activities.Unemployment duration, non-cognitive skills, sport.

Unemployment Duration and Sport Participation

In this study we use the German Socio-Economic Panel to evaluate the impact of leisure sport participation on the unemployment duration. The empirical literature on sport participation has focused on labour market outcomes and job quality while the impact of this activity on job search has not been studied. However, sports participation fosters socialization which, through the networking effect, accelerates the exit from unemployment to employment. Furthermore, sporty people are expected to have valuable non-cognitive skills (self-confidence, persistence, team spirit). Last, they are healthier. These hypotheses are tested using survival analysis and taking into account unobservable heterogeneity. Because other activities could lead to similar positive effects we compare them to sporting activities and still find relevant results.Unemployment duration; non-cognitive skills; sport

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