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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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

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Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball

Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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 …

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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration

Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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

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Productivity under Large Pay Increases: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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

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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Angelucci, Manuela; Di Maro, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand spillover effects in program evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a field experiment to measure the average effects of...

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Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition …

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Labour Market Flexibility and Regional Unemployment Rate Dynamics: Spain 1980-1995

Bande, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and is characterised by severe regional disparities. We apply the chain reaction...

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Social Support Shopping: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne C.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance...

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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...

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