IS THERE DISCRIMINATION IN THE "BLACK MAN'S GAME"?

Examination of the 1984-85 salary structure of the National Basketball Association (NBA) provides evidence that "equal pay for equal work" does not exist in the NBA today. When basketball performance and experience are held constant, the NBA's black players as a group are paid from $1...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social science quarterly 1988-03, Vol.69 (1), p.83-94
Hauptverfasser:	KOCH, James V., VANDER HILL, C. Warren
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Basketball Black people Black white relations Blacks DISCRIMINATION Equal pay EQUALITY OR INEQUALITY MINORITY GROUPS Natural logarithms Professional sports Race and Ethnicity RACE RELATIONS Salary Sociology of sport SPORTS Statistical significance Variable coefficients White people
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Zusammenfassung:	Examination of the 1984-85 salary structure of the National Basketball Association (NBA) provides evidence that "equal pay for equal work" does not exist in the NBA today. When basketball performance and experience are held constant, the NBA's black players as a group are paid from $17,000 to as much as $26,000 per year less than white players as a group. This evidence contradicts the notion that the NBA (which is numerically dominated by black athletes who outperform their white counterparts in nearly every category) has become a land of milk and honey for blacks.
ISSN:	0038-4941 1540-6237