Career Duration in the NBA

Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, vol. 19, issue 6, 873-883

Abstract: Using a panel of National Basketball Association players from 1990 through 2013, we analyze the determinants of career length in the league. We find that foreign-born players who did not play college basketball in the United States have shorter careers than do American-born players holding performance constant. Foreign-born players who played college basketball in the United States do not have shorter careers. We suggest that both push and pull immigration factors might cause this early exit.

Keywords: National Basketball Association; discrimination; professional sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1527002517690789

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