Talent Development and Labour Market Integration: The Case of EU Football

Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Martin Olsson and Lars Persson

No 1126, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: We analyse how the Bosman ruling changed the incentives for football clubs in the European Union (EU) to develop talents. We show that the stiffer bidding competition over star players after the Bosman ruling has spurred talent development primarily in EU countries without established top clubs. This, in turn, has had a positive impact on their junior and senior national teams’ performance. However, the stiffer bidding competition has also led to a lower competitive balance in the Champions League, as non-established clubs prefer to sell their star players instead of challenging the top clubs. We provide empirical evidence consistent with these findings.

Keywords: Sports industry; Star players; Champions League; Bosman ruling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J44 L50 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2016-05-31, Revised 2018-03-14
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