Career Duration in the NHL: Pushing and Pulling on Europeans?

Craig Depken, Johnny Ducking and Peter Groothuis

No 16-10, Working Papers from Department of Economics, Appalachian State University

Abstract: Using a panel of National Hockey League players from 2000 through 2013, we analyze the determinants of career length in the league. In our analysis, we include both performance variables and nationality of origin to determine their importance in determining career length. We find that European-born players have shorter careers than North American-born players holding performance constant and Russian-born players have even shorter careers than other Europeans. We further find that Russian-born players have even shorter careers than other players after the 2005 lockout. These shorter careers are consistent with exit discrimination against European and Russian players pushing them out of the league and voluntary exit by European and Russian players due to opportunities in their home countries pulling them out of the league. Ironically, voluntary exit by European and Russian players provides teams with a financial incentive to discriminate against European players. Key Words: Exit discrimination, competing leagues, professional sports, return migration

JEL-codes: L83 Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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