And most of us go Pro in something other than Sports - Hiring Preferences and their Effect on the Labor Market for Collegiate Football Players

Mario Lackner

No 2010-10, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: This paper analyzes the labor market for collegiate football players and argues that professional football teams have discriminating preferences when making their hiring decisions. An empirical analysis of panel data of 32 NFL teams in recent seasons is carried out to test the effects of such preferences on the performance of teams. The results provide strong evidence that certain criteria, which do have a high influence on a player’s chances to start a career in Professional Football, have actually little influence on team-efficiency whatsoever. Consequently, this implies that discrimination in the form of hiring preferences create a sub-optimal result in terms of building a team, as well as for the overall labor market in Professional Football.

Keywords: Labor market in sports; discrimination in hiring; production efficiency; stochastic production frontier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J2 J7 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2010-08
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