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dc.contributor.authorScarfe, Rachelen_UK
dc.contributor.authorSingleton, Carlen_UK
dc.contributor.authorTelemo, Paulen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-09T01:14:32Z-
dc.date.available2025-12-09T01:14:32Z-
dc.date.issued2020-11en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/37668-
dc.description.abstractIntuition and sports knowledge suggest that the most talented professional footballers play for the best teams, i.e., positive assortative matching based on productivity. We consider Major League Soccer (MLS) between 2007 and 2017. We estimate a wage equation, finding that player and team fixed wage premiums are negatively correlated. This is a puzzle, especially because our estimates of players’ wage premiums do correlate strongly with measures of their performance on the pitch, and there is evidence of positive teammate sorting. However, the estimated wage premiums of MLS teams are highly and negatively correlated with their success in the league and their home game attendance. This finding is consistent with an explanation whereby part of an MLS team’s success comes from its ability to bargain down the price that it pays for talent.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherFitness Information Technologyen_UK
dc.relationScarfe R, Singleton C & Telemo P (2020) Do High Wage Footballers Play for High Wage Teams? The Case of Major League Soccer. <i>International Journal of Sport Finance</i>, 15 (4), pp. 177-190. https://doi.org/10.32731/jsf.2020.a927059en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserveden_UK
dc.subjectfirm-specific wagesen_UK
dc.subjectAKM wage equationen_UK
dc.subjectmatchingen_UK
dc.subjectsuperstar payen_UK
dc.titleDo High Wage Footballers Play for High Wage Teams? The Case of Major League Socceren_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.rights.embargodate2999-12-31en_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.32731/jsf.2020.a927059en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleInternational Journal of Sport Financeen_UK
dc.citation.issn1930-076Xen_UK
dc.citation.issn1558-6235en_UK
dc.citation.volume15en_UK
dc.citation.issue4en_UK
dc.citation.spage177en_UK
dc.citation.epage190en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.author.emailcarl.singleton@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date01/04/2020en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationEconomicsen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationResearch for Evidence-based and Achievable Decisionsen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000672155300003en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid1969642en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-5989-0066en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0001-8247-8830en_UK
dc.date.accepted2020-02-01en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-02-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2024-01-10en_UK
rioxxterms.apcnot requireden_UK
rioxxterms.versionAMen_UK
local.rioxx.authorScarfe, Rachel|0000-0002-5989-0066en_UK
local.rioxx.authorSingleton, Carl|0000-0001-8247-8830en_UK
local.rioxx.authorTelemo, Paul|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2270-03-02en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved||en_UK
local.rioxx.filenamemls_akm_sst.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
local.rioxx.source1930-076Xen_UK
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