WAGE DISPARITY, TEAM PERFORMANCE, AND THE 2005 NHL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

Craig Depken and Jeff Lureman

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2018, vol. 36, issue 1, 192-199

Abstract: This paper provides an empirical analysis of salary disparity and team performance in the National Hockey League during the first decade of the twenty‐first century. We find that the 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) reduced average salaries immediately after it was introduced but did not change the trajectory of average salaries nor did it alter the salary disparity on the average team. Salary disparity harms overall team performance primarily through reduced defensive performance and this relationship was not altered by the 2005 CBA. (JEL J31, J42, L83)

Date: 2018
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