Analysis of Wage Discrimination in Major League Baseball
Introduction
Baseball has become one of the most popular sports in the United States. It became a professional sport since 1960s when the increasing victory led to recruit better players despite their ethnicities. However, since then the issue of unequal salaries among players arose. Many people believe that racial inequality is present in the baseball league. Even in this highly integrated labor market, the minority (non-white) might receive lower salaries than white players. In response to the argument of discrimination in payroll, many researchers have tried to examine the hypothesis of unequal treatment toward black baseball players. However, the result of those studies did not come to the same conclusions. In the early 1970's Anthony H. Pascal and Leonard Rapping and Gerald W. Scully, using the 1968-69 major league baseball players, arrived at the conclusion that salaries are independent of races. In contrast,......
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