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Basketball was the first sport to cap salaries, in the 1984-85 season, and a similar restriction went into effect in football in 1994. In other sports, salary caps were contested in both the 1994-95 baseball strike and the 1994-95 lockout in hockey.
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www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/archive/spring1998art1.pdf
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Why a salary cap would be good... ... Why a salary cap would be good ... • "If you polled fans, you'd have 98% thinking really hard caps would be good for sports, that all athletes are paid too much. But I'd say, 'God bless, America.' My perspective is colored because I played in the system when there was no choice."
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www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-09-01-pros-cons-salary-cap...
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There are basically two types of salary caps that are currently employed in professional sports, the Hard Cap, and the Soft Cap. Many people that are not particularly familiar with caps in sports would easily wonder why have two different types of cap?
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By Helmut Max Dietl, Egon Franck, Markus Lang and Alexander Rathke; ... Related works:; Working Paper: Welfare Effects of Salary Caps in Sports Leagues with Win-Maximizing Clubs (2008) ; This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
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econpapers.repec.org/paper/isowpaper/0086.htm
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Related works:; Journal Article: The Effect of Salary Caps in Professional Team Sports on Social Welfare (2009) ; This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
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econpapers.repec.org/paper/isowpaper/0072.htm
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Just like in un-capped sports, salary caps don't strongly influence the escalation of player salaries. Players perceived as stars are being paid tremendous sums in all four sports (hockey least of all) while the salaries and job status of the low end and mid range players are adjusted to compensate.
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www.washingtonhockey.com/200203/features/sc3.htm
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Helmut Dietl & Egon FrancK & Markus Lang & Alexander Rathke, 2008. "Welfare Effects of Salary Caps in Sports Leagues with Win-Maximizing Clubs," Working Papers 0825, International Association of Sports Economists.
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ideas.repec.org/p/iso/wpaper/0086.html
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Késenne S., 1999. "The impact of salary caps in professional team sports," Working Papers 1999026, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics. [Downloadable!]
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