Victims or beneficiaries? Wage premia and national origin in the national hockey league

• Autores: Peter von Allmen
• Localización: Journal of Sport Management, ISSN-e 1543-270X, Vol. 29, Nº. 4, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We add to the literature on migration and earnings by showing how migration affects one particularly highly-skilled set of migrants: European hockey players. We examine salary differentials using a sample of newly-signed free agents from the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. We also apply several new productivity measures that sharpen the specification of the wage equation, especially regarding productivity on defense and special teams play. We find that European players receive a premium relative to otherwise identical Canadian and US-born players. We present evidence that this premium is due to the greater mobility of European players and their resulting access to alternative employment possibilities.