Wage disparity and team productivity: Evidence from major league baseball

Economics Letters

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-92

  Depken II, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

J31; L20; Labor shirking; Relative wage hypothesis; Team cohesion; Wage compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034421909     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00249-9     Document Type: Article

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