The football players' labor market: Empirical evidence from the major European leagues

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 422-446

  Frick, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LABOR MARKET;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34250202528     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: 14679485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00423.x     Document Type: Review

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