Spanish Abstract: Este artículo hace dos cosas. Primero, usa una base de datos original, basada en los albúmenes de Panini de los mundiales de fútbol, para estudiar la creciente globalización en el mercado de jugadores. Segundo, muestra, con base en una serie de indicadores sencillos, que la...

In Major League Baseball, players sign contracts that are guaranteed. What this means is that the player's salary must be paid even if the player's performance does not meet expectations and even if the player is removed from the roster. This is important because guaranteed contracts can...

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club’s first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

India got independence before 70 years. Till now India has a number of policy and acts for eradicate the poverty and eradicate the child Labour in the country. But still child Labour exists in India. This is not for India alone; Child Labour still exists in all the developing countries in the...

This paper examines the growing economic impact of MLB on the Dominican economy. After introducing the Dominican baseball experience, it examines the rapid growth of salaries paid to Dominican-born major league players and provides perspective on how the growth in those salaries relates to...

The impact of contract length on player performance has received attention in the sports economics literature. Players are said to shirk following the signing of a guaranteed contract if performance falls below some level of expected performance. While much of the literature uses OLS to identify...

Workplace fatalities occur on an all too frequent basis which results in regulatory and reputational risks which require oversight from the Board of Directors. This article reviews questions Board members should ask in order to reduce the likelihood of discussing worker deaths in the Boardroom

Transfer fees in European football have experienced a rapid increase in the past years. Simultaneously, an increasing number of domestic and recently foreign investors - who are assumed to further increase team spending in European football - have entered the football market by becoming club...

There is mixed evidence for gender differences in competing against the opposite sex. We analyze performance data from a sport where men and women can compete directly against each other. Our unique data consists of close to 600,000 observations from around 23,500 mixed-gender ninepin bowling...