Does Experience Matter? Salary Dispersion, Coaching, and Team Performance: the MLS case

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2019-09-12

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Bykova, Anna; Coates, Dennis; Does Experience Matter? Salary Dispersion, Coaching, and Team Performance: the MLS case; Contemporary Economic Policy 38,1 (2019); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12444

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: “Bykova, Anna; Coates, Dennis; Does Experience Matter? Salary Dispersion, Coaching, and Team Performance: the MLS case; Contemporary Economic Policy 38,1 (2019); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12444”, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12444. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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Abstract

Using Major League Soccer as a unique dataset, this study examines the direct and indirect role of coaches’ experience in determining team performance. Inspired by labour market studies, we applied traditional indicators of team salary structure and, unlike previous studies, empirically test the hypothesis that coach experience affects the way in which team salary distribution influences performance. Our results suggest that coaches with experience as professional soccer players improve team performance directly but worsen the negative effect of a skewed salary distribution. Moreover, experience as a player is more important than coaching experience