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Salary Distribution and Collective Bargaining Agreements: A Case Study of the NBA
Author(s) -
HILL JAMES R.,
JOLLY NICHOLAS A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2012.00680.x
Subject(s) - salary , seniority , collective bargaining , productivity , distribution (mathematics) , labour economics , affect (linguistics) , economics , business , political science , market economy , law , sociology , economic growth , mathematical analysis , mathematics , communication
Traditional non‐sports unions attempt to institutionalize pay between workers by reducing productivity‐related differences in wages and increasing pay differences based on seniority and other non‐productivity‐related characteristics. Recent changes made to the collective bargaining agreements of the NBA have mirrored those of unions that are more traditional. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the changes made in the bargaining agreements of the NBA affect the salary distributions of players over time.