Racial Salary Discrimination In Major League Baseball: Some Recent Evidence
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author = {Clifford E. Reid},
title = {Racial Salary Discrimination In Major League Baseball: Some Recent Evidence},
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Abstract:
this paper we present racial salary differentials (black-white and Latin-white ) for the 1977 major league baseball season. The estimates we report in this paper provide crucial information for the continuing debate on the effect of race on the inequality of labor services in professional sports markets. The estimates are important, first, because the sample we use refers to individuals who are major league baseball players eight or nine years after the dates of the sample used by Pascal and Rapping and Scully. In order to be fully confident of published empirical results, it is necessary to replicate these studies using more recent data. 1 Second, the sample we use in this study contains approxi- mately three times the number of individuals used in the Pascal and Rapping and Scully sample. Thus, the estimates we present, while still subject to some bias, should be much more efficient. Finally, although both our samples are nonrandom, the sample we use in this paper is less hetero- geneous because it consists only of players who are in the opening day lineup for the 1977 major league season. Barring spring-training injury, these are the players who are in some sense the principal players for their respective teams
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| 4 | Pay and Performance in Major League Baseball – Scully - 1974 |
| 1 | The Sporting News – Louis - 1977 |
| 1 | A Note on Discrimination by Race in – Markmann - 1976 |
| 1 | Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball – Mogull - 1974 |
| 1 | Rapping, in "The Economics of Racial Discrimination in Organized Baseball – Pascal, Leonard - 1972 |
| 1 | Racial Discrimination in Professional Baseball Revisited – Rockwood, Roddy - 1976 |
| 1 | Economic Discrimination in Professional Sports – Scully - 1973 |
| 1 | Discrimination: The Case of Baseball," in Government and the Sports Business, edited by Roger Noll – Scully - 1974 |
