The beautiful gain: what can Brazilian football tell us about the effect of non-compete clauses on wages?

Guimaraes, Bernardo, Pessoa, João Paulo and Ponczek, Vladimir (2021) The beautiful gain: what can Brazilian football tell us about the effect of non-compete clauses on wages? LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog (08 Jun 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

With the 1998 Pelé Law eliminating transfer fees for players whose contracts had expired, Brazilian football provides an ideal setting to test the effect of non-compete agreements on wages. This analysis reveals that older players gained the most, whereas the wages of young players fell, which has wider implications for policies on the use of non-competes amongst low- and high-income employees, write Bernardo Guimarães, João Paulo Pessoa, and Vladimir Ponczek (all Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV).

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2021 14:51
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111171

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