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From the author: This paper investigates the proposition that violence is a substantial determinant of player salary and employment in the National Hockey League. The basic hypothesis is that teams are composed of two types of player: the skill player whose performance and reward depends on scoring and the like and the physical player who is rewarded for bringing violence to the game. Testing this hypothesis at long last involves constructing a model of salary determination and testing for the joint equality of the coefficients of skill and physical players. The data consist of a sample of 388 players for the 1989-90 season. The major conclusion is that the coefficients of the approximated models are significantly dissimilar for skill and physical players, therefore confirming the hypothesized distinction.

Citation Details
Title: The wages of sin: employment and salary effects of violence in the National Hockey League.
Author: J.C.H. Jones
Publication: Atlantic Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1997
Publisher: Atlantic Economic Society
Volume: v25 Issue: n2 Page: p191(16)

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