The Migrant Wage Premium in Professional Football: A Superstar Effect?

Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Robert

doi:10.1111/kykl.12041

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“…Bryson et al . () investigated Serie A and Serie B in the Italian football market, focusing on the superstar effect of migrant players (e.g. Franck and Nuesch, ), and discovered wage discrimination to the disadvantage of domestic Italian players.…”

Section: Theory Model and Hypothesesmentioning

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“…They found that differences in player's game time could be fully explained by the player's ability and the team's strategy, and ruled out possibility for the existence of discrimination. Bryson et al (2014) investigated Serie A and Serie B in the Italian football market, focusing on the superstar effect of migrant players (e.g. Franck and Nuesch, 2008), and discovered wage discrimination to the disadvantage of domestic Italian players.…”

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Do Italians Really Do It Better? Evidence of Migrant Pay Disparities in the Top Italian Football League

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Giangreco

Legeais

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European Management Review

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This study contributes to research on migrant pay disparities by analysing the impact of players' domestic/foreign status on performance‐based pay offered to professional footballers, to understand if foreign players benefit from a preferential labour market. We used information from publicly available data of 275 footballers who played for two consecutive seasons in the Italian league Serie A. We found that the relationship between previous and current performance was partially mediated by the current salary. This result reinforced earlier findings on the pay‐performance relationship, where seasonal performance is particularly relevant. Moreover, our results show that pay discrimination does not indicate a straightforward (dis)advantage for one group, but presents a more complex picture. We have examined possible underlying reasons for these disparities and offered suggestions for further research. We conclude by discussing how clubs and managers could consider incentives to strengthen pay‐performance relationships by being sensitive to the complex influence of players' origins.

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Do Italians Really Do It Better? Evidence of Migrant Pay Disparities in the Top Italian Football League

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Giangreco

Legeais

et al. 2017

European Management Review

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“…12 In a real world setting customer discrimination can affect team selection via crowd attendance at games (Bryson et al, 2014).…”

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Is there a taste for racial discrimination amongst employers?

Bryson

Chevalier

2015

Labour Economics

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Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus isolating the effect of taste-based discrimination. We find no evidence of racial discrimination, either in initial hiring or through the season, in a context where employers are fully aware of current and prospective workers' productivity.

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“…The recruitment of football superstars is also important for branding, and can be used as a marketing strategy of football clubs, and therefore the efforts of a football club to recruit them is not necessarily driven solely by football strategy aiming at achieving the optimal achievements on the field (Kase et al, 2007). That "superstar effect" has been shown to affect crowd attendance (Bryson et al, 2014), and also contributes to the financial success of the football club in addition to its sporting success (Rohde and Breuer, 2016).…”

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Computational Estimation of Football Player Wages

Yaldo

Shamir

2017

International Journal of Computer Science in Sport

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The wage of a football player is a function of numerous aspects such as the player's skills, performance in the previous seasons, age, trajectory of improvement, personality, and more. Based on these aspects, salaries of football players are determined through negotiation between the team management and the agents. In this study we propose an objective quantitative method to determine football players' wages based on their skills. The method is based on the application of pattern recognition algorithms to performance (e.g., scoring), behavior (e.g., aggression), and abilities (e.g., acceleration) data of football players. Experimental results using data from 6,082 players show that the Pearson correlation between the predicted and actual salary of the players is ∼0.77 (p < .001). The proposed method can be used as an assistive technology when negotiating players salaries, as well as for performing quantitative analysis of links between the salary and the performance of football players. The method is based on the performance and skills of the players, but does not take into account aspects that are not related directly to the game such as the popularity of the player among fans, predicted merchandise sales, etc, which are also factors of high impact on the salary, especially in the case of the team lead players and superstars. Analysis of player salaries in eight European football leagues show that the skills that mostly affect the salary are largely consistent across leagues, but some differences exist. Analysis of underpaid and overpaid players shows that overpaid players tend to be stronger, but are inferior in their reactions, vision, acceleration, agility, and balance compared to underpaid football players.

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The Migrant Wage Premium in Professional Football: A Superstar Effect?

Cited by 44 publications

References 31 publications

Do Italians Really Do It Better? Evidence of Migrant Pay Disparities in the Top Italian Football League

Do Italians Really Do It Better? Evidence of Migrant Pay Disparities in the Top Italian Football League

Is there a taste for racial discrimination amongst employers?

Computational Estimation of Football Player Wages

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