2021
DOI: 10.1177/15270025211051062
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Professional Labor Markets in the Journal of Sports Economics

Abstract: This article summarises the research findings of papers published in Journal of Sports Economics on the workings of professional sports labor markets. The article covers three main themes: pay and performance, discrimination, and player mobility. The review shows what scholars have found so far and point out various gaps that researchers can fill in future work.

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“…Our estimates are reported in Table 4. Estimation of player salary models with player fixed effects is unusual in the literature (Simmons, 2022). Drut and Duhautois (2017) and Kempa (2022) are notable exceptions that apply player fixed effects to salary data of European soccer players.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Our estimates are reported in Table 4. Estimation of player salary models with player fixed effects is unusual in the literature (Simmons, 2022). Drut and Duhautois (2017) and Kempa (2022) are notable exceptions that apply player fixed effects to salary data of European soccer players.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Employer ability to pay is similar throughout the league. Unusually, for salary models of sports leagues, we also report estimates of () with player fixed effects added to utilise our longitudinal data set and control for unobserved heterogeneity across players (Simmons, 2022). When we do this, the effects of time‐invariant variables, that is, draft round dummy variables will drop out.…”
Section: Modelling Quarterback Salaries In the Nflmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Simmons summarized the research findings of papers published in Journal of Sports Economics on the workings of professional sports labor markets. In sum, the evidence of hiring and exit discrimination in various leagues looks stronger than the evidence for salary discrimination [ 21 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…It is now broadly accepted that there are many advantages to using data from sports labor markets to consider questions in labor economics (Kahn, 2000; Simmons, 2022). In our analysis, we use panel data for professional football (soccer) players in the United States and Canada.…”
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confidence: 99%