New evidence of salary discrimination in major league baseball
Salary discrimination in MLB has largely been discarded as a research topic. However traditional quantitative methods (particularly least squares regression) have concentrated on the effect of race for the average player. If only a particular salary class of players are subject to discrimination, or if the size of the discrimination is small at the average, then least-squares techniques will struggle to identify discrimination. I use quantile regression to uncover salary discrimination against black players in the lower half of the salary distribution. Not only are the premia for white and Hispanic players statistically significant, but they are large: up to 25% of salary for the bottom quintile of players.
Year of publication: |
2011
|
---|---|
Authors: | Holmes, Paul |
Published in: |
Labour Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0927-5371. - Vol. 18.2011, 3, p. 320-331
|
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Salary discrimination Baseball MLB Quantile regression |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Win or go home : why college football coaches get fired
Holmes, Paul, (2011)
-
New evidence of salary discrimination in major league baseball
Holmes, Paul, (2011)
-
Gallagher, Anne T., (2009)
- More ...