PhD Seminar Sports Labour Markets

Lecturers: 

Prof. Dr. Dietl and Prof. Robert Simmons (Lancaster University, Management School, UK)

Assistant at Chair: Anil Özdemir

Application: 
No further applications accepted!

Course Material:

Readings (PDF, 103 KB) (updated on March 23, 2017)

Course Assessment (PDF, 36 KB)

Software:

STATA (please use University computers if you do not have a working license)

Time and Place:
Mon. April 3 - Fri. April 7, 2017. Presumably daily schedule: 10.15-12.00 and 14.00 -15.45 (incl. 15 min. breaks am and pm)

Syllabus:

• Overview of sports labour markets
• Training of players: who pays?
• Bargaining between players and clubs
• Economics of long-term contracts
• Ethnic discrimination
• Player mobility and migration
• Peer effects on player performance
• Performance-related pay
• Effects of pay disparity on team performance
• The market for head coaches