Work out or out of work - The labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sports activities

Labour Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 399-409

  Rooth, Dan Olof ^a,b,c  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c IZA ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular fitness; Correspondence testing; Earnings; Leisure sports; Physical fitness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955467081     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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