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An Empirical Analysis On Major League Soccer Player Earnings, Aaron Michael Anderson Iehl
An Empirical Analysis On Major League Soccer Player Earnings, Aaron Michael Anderson Iehl
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Application of economic and statistical techniques to the sports world has been on the rise for some time. The major sports in the United States (football, basketball, baseball, and hockey) have been thoroughly studied. However, professional soccer in the United States has emerged as a strong sports market in the last 20 years. This paper applies a statistical technique used by Lucifora and Simmons (2003) on an Italian professional soccer league to examine determinants of professional soccer player wages and assess the overall value added. The model is applied to Major League Soccer to determine how the different league structure …