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Article: Measuring employer-based discrimination versus customer-based discrimination: the case of French Canadians in the National Hockey League. (Discrimination and the NHL).
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Introduction
RESEARCHERS STUDYING LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION have frequently focused on the professional sports industry to empirically test their theories. Relative to other industries, the professional sports industry offers a number of advantages to researchers: for example, the extent to which minorities are represented can be easily and accurately monitored; employee performance can be objectively measured, and data on such performance is widely available; information regarding employees' salaries are comprehensive and publicly available, and so forth.
This paper focuses on one particular sport--professional hockey. Unlike sports such ...