Wage disparity and team productivity: evidence from major league baseball

被引:76
作者
Depken, CA [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas, Dept Econ, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
关键词
labor shirking; relative wage hypothesis; team cohesion; wage compression;
D O I
10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00249-9
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Using data describing baseball teams from 1985 to 1998, it is found that Levine's [Levine, D.I., 1991. Cohesiveness, productivity and wage dispersion. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 15, 237-255] team-cohesiveness hypothesis is supported over Ramaswamy and Rowthorn's [Ramaswamy, R., Rowthorn, E., 1991. Efficiency wages and dispersion. Economica 58, 501-514] danger-potential hypothesis. The implication is that teams with greater wage disparity experience a reduction in team performance. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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页码:87 / 92
页数:6
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