New evidence of salary discrimination in major league baseball

Labour Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-331

  Holmes, Paul ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; MLB; Quantile regression; Salary discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955475571     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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