– subsequent player performance and the durability of club-player relationship. Major League Baseball provides a compelling setting …

spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain …

scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the goods they help produce, contribute to their own demand. We examine … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitution of immigrants for natives; (ii) out-migration; and (iii) stimulation of labor demand. According to (iii), native wages …

. Polarization of employment demand is the more credible explanation for the more recent evolution. As in other developed economies …

the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period …

Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871–2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical …"). Baseball is a unique case study because it has a long history of statistics collection and numerous direct measurements of … productivity. Our results show that the marriage premium also holds for baseball players, where married players earn up to 16 …

The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball …