A game-level analysis of salary dispersion and team performance in the national basketball association

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1193-1207

  Katayama, Hajime ^a   Nuch, Hudan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Productivity Commission   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PANEL DATA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPORT; WAGE;

EID: 79956146693     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802600335     Document Type: Article

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