scholarly journals La economía del deporte

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Plácido Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Competitive Balance ◽  
Sports Economics

This paper presents some of the major characteristics of sports economics which represents a peculiar economy in the economic analysis. We analyze the characteristics of the sport product, the study of the behavior of clubs, leagues and competitive balance and also the player´s labor market and the demand of professional sports.

The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
Team Sport ◽  
Antitrust Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Sports Economics ◽  
Managerial Behavior ◽  
The North ◽  
Individual Productivity

This book is the second volume of the two-volume The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Sports which includes articles by nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of sports economics. The two volumes consider in depth the ways that economics and sports interact with each other. To start with, economic analysis has helped with the understanding of many of the different institutions in sports. Secondly, quality data about individual productivity, salaries, career histories, teamwork, and managerial behavior has been useful in helping economists study topics as varied as the economics of discrimination, salary dispersion, and antitrust policy. The volumes are also rich from the point of view of the sports fan. Every major team sport is covered, and many interesting comparisons can be made especially between the North American League organization and the European-style promotion and relegation leagues. Golf, NASCAR, college athletics, women's sports, the Olympics, and even bowling are represented in these pages.

What Makes Shabti Slave?

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris Silver
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Nous Proposons ◽  
Analyse Économique ◽  
Marché Du Travail ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Premiere Partie ◽  
The Craftsman

AbstractThe first part of this paper considers why small funerary figures called shabtis, were willing to slave in the Beyond for deceased Egyptians. The proposed answer is that they agreed in return for being given "life" by the craftsman. It is well understood that ancient Egyptians were willing to utilize standard legal forms to mediate between the earthly and supernatural dimensions. However, consideration of the "contract" between craftsmen and shabtis casts new light on the nature of ancient Egypt's labor market and, more specifically, on the prevalence of resorting to contractual slavery. The second part of the paper uses economic analysis to reinforce the suggestion that temple ateliers probably earned a substantial profit by marketing shabtis. La première partie de cet article envisage les raisons pour lesquelles les figurines funéraires appelées oushebtis consentaient à servir les Egyptiens comme esclaves dans l'au-delà. Nous proposons que ces figurines acceptaient ce rôle en échange de la « vie » que leur insufflaient les artisans. Il est bien connu que les anciens Egyptiens employaient des formulaires juridiques comme mode de médiation entre le domaine terrestre et celui du surnaturel. L'examen du « contrat » passé entre artisans et oushebtis éclaire néanmoins d'un jour nouveau la nature du marché du travail dans l'Egypte ancienne, notamment le recours répandu à l'esclavage contractuel. Dans la seconde partie de l'article, une analyse économique confirme que la vente des oushebtis assurait vraisemblablement des profits substantiels aux ateliers des temples.

Competitive Balance in Team Sports and the Impact of Revenue Sharing

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kesenne
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Relative Size ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
Competitive Balance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Uncertainty Of Outcome

This article uses economic theory to examine the variables that affect the competitive balance in a professional sports league and the impact of revenue sharing. The generally accepted proposition that revenue sharing does not affect the competitive balance in a profi t-maximizing league has been challenged by many. It is shown that the competitive balance and the impact of revenue sharing not only depend on the relative size of the market of the clubs, but that they are also affected by the objectives of the club owners and the importance to spectators of absolute team quality and uncertainty of outcome. Furthermore, the clubs’ hiring strategies, including the talent supply conditions, turn out to be important elements affecting competitive balance and the impact of revenue sharing.

Book Review: Labor Market: Working Hours: An Economic Analysis

ILR Review ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-578
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Kniesner
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Working Hours

scholarly journals A Welfare Economic Analysis of Labor Market Policies in the Harris-Todaro Model

2018 ◽  
pp. 343-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Fields
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Welfare Economic ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Modern Sector ◽  
Labor Earnings ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Total Labor ◽  
Economic Analyses

This chapter presents a welfare economic analysis of the benefits of various labor market policies in the Harris-Todaro labor market model. The policies considered are a policy of modern sector job creation, called modern sector enlargement (MSENL); a policy of rural development, called traditional sector enrichment (TSENR); and a policy of wage limitation in the urban economy, called modern sector wage restraint (MSWR). First, the inequality effects of these policies are analyzed. Then two welfare economic analyses are performed, the first based on summary measures of labor market conditions (total labor earnings, unemployment, inequality of labor incomes, and poverty rates) and the second based on dominance analysis in the labor market, in both cases assuming that the costs are borne elsewhere. The results of the welfare analyses are compared, and it is shown that TSENR unambiguously increases welfare in the labor market using both approaches, the other policies yield ambiguous results, and no policy is unambiguously welfare-decreasing.

Agency Theory and Principal–Agent Alignment Masks: An Examination of Penalties in the National Football League

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy J. Foreman ◽  
Joshua S. Bendickson ◽  
Birton J. Cowden
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
Head Coach ◽  
Hiring Decisions ◽  
Coaching Strategies ◽  
Rule Changes

Rule changes are not uncommon in most professional sports, and scholars often study the effects of such changes. Given the substantial increase in rule changes and the substantially different nature of new rules (e.g., safety driven) in the National Football League since 2005, the authors examined how coaches adapt to the changing National Football League in terms of coaching strategies and securing subsequent head coach positions in the labor market. Using agency theory, the authors identified agency misalignment when coaches employ strategies whereby incurring more penalties results in on-field success, but decreases their likelihood of obtaining future employment as a head coach. In addition, the authors found evidence that, regardless of the penalties accrued, former coaches who previously held more head coaching jobs, are Black, or are younger have higher chances of securing subsequent head coaching positions. However, these attributes do not increase team performance, indicating that coach-hiring decisions are incongruent with determinants of coach performance.

Labor demographics and productivity: all-star roster turnover and foreigners

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
Martin B. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Labor Pool ◽  
Productivity Differential

PurposeTalent compression is the labor market phenomenon where the average productivity differential between participants declines and has been used to explain the overall increase in competition within some professional sports markets. A finding that competitiveness is uniquely driven by talent compression is consistent with Rottenberg (1956), who argued that resource distribution is independent of factors that are invariant to labor productivity.Design/methodology/approachRather than incorporate MLB team roster turnover as many of the past studies have done, we prefer to measure of all-star turnover in membership. Problematically, movement from an MLB team to an MLB team is limited by rule, finances and the fact that there are very few teams competing for player services. In contrast, All-Star membership is typically costlessly chosen by many millions of fans, league players and managers. In this way, All-Star voting should be invariant to many of the factors that affect movement from an MLB team to an MLB team.FindingsIn the end, we find that a close association between all-star turnover rates and the makeup of MLB’s labor pool.Originality/valueThe paper offers a new measure of player mobility.

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