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- Title
The effect of performance on a worker's career evidence from minor league baseball.
- Authors
Spurr, Stephen J.; Barber, William
- Abstract
The authors analyze the promotion, demotion, and turnover of pitchers in baseball's minor leagues-a labor market for which exceptionally good data on performance are available-in the years 1975-88. They find that the time between a player's assignment to one league and promotion or demotion to another (or exit from professional baseball) declined as his performance deviated from the mean, in either a positive or negative direction. Also negatively associated with the time required to make a determination about a pitcher's ability was his age, which the authors use as a proxy for experience. Pitchers' ages did not, however, affect the highest league level in which they ultimately played.
- Subjects
LABOR market; PITCHERS (Baseball); MINOR league baseball; EMPLOYEE promotions; DEMOTIONS; LABOR turnover
- Publication
ILR Review, 1994, Vol 47, Issue 4, p692
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979399404700412