Wage dispersion and team performance: Evidence from the small size professional baseball league in Taiwan

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 883-886

  San, Gee ^a   Jane, Wen Jhan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPENDITURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WAGE DETERMINATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 52049092588     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600905014     Document Type: Article

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