The Baseball Players' Labor Market

1956/06/01 by Simon Rottenberg · 1,379 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Economics #Labour economics #Sport and Mega-Event Impacts #Sports Analytics and Performance #Sports, Gender, and Society

paper · doi:10.1086/257790

published in Journal of Political Economy 64(3), 242-258 (University of Chicago Press)

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