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Studies of salary determination largely model pay as a function of the attributes of ( the indi¨idual and the workplace i.e., employer size, job characteristics, and so ) forth . This article empirically in¨estigates an additional factor that may influence indi¨idual pay, specifically coworker producti¨ity. Data from professional sports are used to e¨aluate this question because both salary and teammate performance measures are readily a¨ailable. We find that team attributes ha¨e both direct effects on an indi¨idual's pay, and indirect effects through altering the rates at which Ž . indi¨idual player producti¨e characteristics are¨alued. JEL J31, L83

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This paper studies the production process in the National Hockey League (NHL) and attempts to identify the sources of production inefficiency, including potential inefficiencies associated with preferences for, or against French-Canadians. Employing the method of stochastic frontier estimation, it is shown that production inefficiencies are prevalent in the NHL and can, in part, be traced to differences in coaching ability, team ownership, local sports competition, and management experience. In addition, it is found that teams with unusually high (or low) numbers of French-Canadian players tended to be less efficient, implying that discriminating hiring practices are costly. Copyright Springer 2005Discrimination, efficiency, National Hockey League, production stochastic frontier,

Empirical support is shown for the propositionthat sports fans prefer the composition of their home team to remain the same from season to season. Controlling for price, income, population, team quality, league, year, the stadium effects, the regression results indicate that for each percentage point increase in the turnover of the composition of the team, attendance will fall by about 0.7%. The implications of this heretofore ignored tendency are briefly discussed.