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

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

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 …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …