Add to ORKGTorgler and Schmidt (2007) have recently found a positive impact of pay on player performance in German soccer, measured by the number of goals and assists scored within a season. This note shows that their result is spurious as both a player's wage and goal/assist scoring are driven by individual playing abilities. Holding the (unobserved) time-invariant and the varying talent of a player constant, the positive pay-performance link is no longer statistically significant. In professional soccer, wages seem to buy talent rather than motivation.
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This paper investigated the relationship between players’ wages and sport performance in the Italian...
In this reply we show that the Nüesch (2009) comment paper to our initial contribution (Torgler and ...
In this article, we investigate the pay-performance relationship of soccer players using individual ...
The purpose of the current study is to investigate how consistency of professional soccer players ’ ...
Across organizational and managerial settings, a commonly held belief is that the pay of resource pr...
In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football cl...
In this paper we use a novel panel data set from the German premier soccer league (Bundesliga) as a ...
We formulate a non-linear integer programming model and use plausible parameters to examine: (i) the...
The link between team payroll and competitive balance plays a central role in the theory of team spo...
This article investigates wage determination among professional soccer players appear-ing in the Ita...
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This paper examines whether workers are rewarded for inconsistent performance by salary premia. Some...
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