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Article: The entry draft in the National Hockey League: discrimination, style of play, and team location. (Discrimination and the NHL).
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
- Author:
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Introduction
BOTH ECONOMISTS AND SOCIOLOGISTS have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the topic of discrimination in professional team sports. Studies have covered a wide range of issues: segregation or stacking, entry discrimination, salary discrimination, and customer or fan discrimination (see the extensive survey made by Kahn [1991]).
Most of these studies have focused on the issue of racial discrimination in baseball, basketball, or football, but discrimination in sport may also occur on other grounds, for instance, on the basis of ethnicity or language. In particular, there have been studies on the possibility of entry ...