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In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-fi...Read more...
Alex Bryson, Giambattista Rossi and Rob Simmons
20 March 2012
We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. W...Read more...
Alex Bryson, Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons
October 2010
We investigate the salary returns to the ability to play football with both feet. The majority of footballers are predominantly right footed. Using two data sets, a cross-section of footballers in the five main European ...Read more...
Alex Bryson, Bernd Frick and Rob Simmons
September 2009