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Productivity, wages, and marriage : the case of major league baseball
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2011
Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871-2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium"). Baseball is a unique case study because it...
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Cross-assignment discrimination in pay : a test case of major league baseball
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Sessions, John G. - 2011
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for determining whether pay differences between, for example, whites and...
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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018
Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...
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The economics of discrimination : evidence from basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … black NBA players in the 1980s. However, there appears to be less evidence of racial compensation, hiring and retention … on customer discrimination in the NBA: in the 1980s, there was abundant evidence of fan preference for white players …
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Business, bankruptcy, and beliefs : the financial demise of NBA stars
Henry, Ruby - 2013
The financial troubles of professional athletes are an ongoing topic of intrigue. In general, the zealousness brought … database of NBA players affords a singular opportunity to measure confidence directly from behavior, avoiding bias from self … high levels increase this probability. -- self-confidence ; bankruptcy ; athletes ; entrepreneurs influence …
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Productivity under large pay increases : evidence from professional baseball
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball players. Historical data show that players have tended to perform better at early stages of their careers since free agency was introduced. Under the current salary bargaining...
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Race, performance, pay and retention among national basketball association head coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014
- truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …
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The measurement of racial discrimination in pay between job categories : theory and test
Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor);  … - 2008
The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination and test it on data from Major League Baseball. A...
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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? : evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...
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