The wages of sin: Employment and salary effects of violence in the national hockey league

J. Jones, Serge Nadeau and W. Walsh

Atlantic Economic Journal, 1997, vol. 25, issue 2, 206 pages

Abstract: This paper investigates the proposition that violence is a significant determinant of player salary and employment in the National Hockey League. The basic hypothesis is that teams are composed of two types of player: the skill player whose performance and reward depends on scoring and the like and the physical player who is rewarded for bringing violence to the game. Testing this hypothesis ultimately involves constructing a model of salary determination and testing for the joint equality of the coefficients of skill and physical players. The data consist of a sample of 388 players for the 1989–90 season. The major conclusion is that the coefficients of the estimated models are significantly different for skill and physical players, thus confirming the hypothesized distinction. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 1997

Date: 1997
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