Career duration in the NBA - Do foreign players exit early?

Using a panel of National Basketball Association players from 1990 through 2013, we analyze the determinants of career length in the league. We find that foreign-born players who did not play college basketball in the United States have shorter careers than do American-born players holding performance constant. Foreign-born players who played college basketball in the United States do not have shorter careers. We suggest that both push and pull immigration factors might cause this early exit.
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Notations:sport games organisations and events management and organisation of sport
Tagging:Karriereverlauf NBA
Published in:Journal of Sports Economics
Language:English
Published: 2018
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002517690789
Volume:19
Issue:6
Pages:873-883
Document types:article
Level:advanced