both on team performance and efficiency, using data from Major League Baseball(MLB) and a stochastic frontier model with a … inequality and team performance, and find that most MLB teams have wage structures which are sub-optimal. Furthermore using a …The effect of wage inequality on team production is an important question in labor economics. Data from sports are well …

paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …

In this paper we investigate the impact of upper and middle level managers on firm performance by simultaneously …

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on … team has a higher incentive than an individual team member that at least some of its members dope. That there are not many … proven cases of doping in team sports could be because doping is less effective or because the incentives to cover it are …

In this study the performance of players in relegated German football clubs is analysed, in particular the change in … their contribution to team production. The players in the data sample differ regarding their outside options. Different … career opportunities of players may have two effects when their current team struggles against relegation. First, players …

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over … the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period … of games a team wins each season. We find that conditioning on average player ability, dispersion of both batting and …

the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and … international tournaments, there are no relevant effects of enjoying different days of rest on team performance. However, we find … goals scored and conceded) to the respective days of rests that teams have had after their previous match, controlling for …