• Title of article

    Wage disparity and team productivity: evidence from major league baseball

  • Author/Authors

    Craig A. DepkenII، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2000
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    87
  • To page
    92
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    Labor shirking , Relative wage hypothesis , Wage compression , Team cohesion
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2000
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    434732