Monoposony Exploitation in Professional Sport: Evidence from Major League Baseball Position Players, 2000-2011
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- Roger D. Blair & Brad R. Humphreys & Hyunwoong Pyun, 2017. "Monopsony Exploitation in Professional Sport: Evidence from Major League Baseball Position Players, 2000–2011," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(5), pages 676-688, July.
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Keywords
monoposony salary exploitation; Major League Baseball; marginal revenue product;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
- J52 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
- Z22 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - Labor Issues
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2015-12-20 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2015-12-20 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-SPO-2015-12-20 (Sports and Economics)
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