Production Efficiency and Discriminatory Hiring Practices in the National Hockey League: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

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• 作者：Leo H. Kahane
• 关键词：Discrimination ; efficiency ; National Hockey League ; production stochastic frontier
• 刊名：Review of Industrial Organization
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：27
• 期：1
• 页码：47-71
• 全文大小：168 KB
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Industrial Organization
  Microeconomics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7160

文摘

This paper studies the production process in the National Hockey League (NHL) and attempts to identify the sources of production inefficiency, including potential inefficiencies associated with preferences for, or against French-Canadians. Employing the method of stochastic frontier estimation, it is shown that production inefficiencies are prevalent in the NHL and can, in part, be traced to differences in coaching ability, team ownership, local sports competition, and management experience. In addition, it is found that teams with unusually high (or low) numbers of French-Canadian players tended to be less efficient, implying that discriminating hiring practices are costly.