Paying for Performance at the Plate: An Investigation of Variable Pay Systems in Major League Baseball

Previous empirical research on variable pay systems have suggested that possible gains can come from paying for performance, but highlight the difficulty firms face in measuring performance. Using contracts signed in Major League Baseball’s free agent market, I find that over the 2010-2014 period, t...

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Main Author: Bremermann, Mitchell S
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
Subjects:
MLB
Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1244
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2315&context=cmc_theses