Firm- specific human capital in different market conditions: evidence from the Japanese football league

Yamamura, Eiji and Ohtake, Fumio (2019): Firm- specific human capital in different market conditions: evidence from the Japanese football league.

Abstract

This paper examined how meeting the team-specific human capital is important in a football player’s performance by comparing the top two league teams. From panel data of the Japan Professional Football League, we find that changing the team reduced a player’s performance and that the team’s performance improved as each player’s tenure in the team increased, the returns from team-specific skills over time increased and then decreased as the years passed, the benefit from moving to a new team depends on the timing of moving, and neither tenure in the team nor experience affects a professional football player’s performance.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Firm-specific human capital; Professional football; Player performance; Matching
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J49 - Other; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility

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