Employment shocks can produce persistent earnings losses, yet it is unclear whether these losses result from changes in productivity or labor market frictions. I estimate the long-run effects of a change in job quality on earnings and productivity by exploiting discontinuities in the rules...

This paper extends and corrects previous methodology used to investigate the potential for point shaving in NCAA men's college basketball. We incorporate information from additional betting markets, including second-half betting markets, which allows us to dramatically reduce the unexpected...

Some professional athletes still face monoposony power in labor markets, underscoring the importance of estimating players' marginal revenue product (MRP) to assess its effects. We introduce two new empirical approaches, spline revenue functions and fixed-effects stochastic production functions,...

For any organisation, internal conflict may arise due to the priorities and perspectives of different business functions. In professional sport, this conflict can led to an 'imposition of the core sporting product', if revenue-maximising initiatives of the marketing department have negative...

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...

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...