Ethnic earnings inequality in professional European football
Dirk Witteveen examines the meritocratic nature of elite leagues by measuring ethnic earnings inequalities in players.
Ethnic earnings inequality in professional European football
22 Jan 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
European football (soccer) consists of competitive and open market leagues, drawing from a global pool of athletes. These competitions still suffer from racial abuse in and around stadiums, which begs the question whether racial-ethnic bias trickles down to the payroll.
Here, Dirk examines the meritocratic nature of elite leagues – the English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Spanish La Liga, and Italian Serie A – by measuring ethnic earnings inequalities in 10,442 player-season observations.
He will discuss how European football contains meritocratic wage-setting at the very top, though ethnicity and migration background remain significant factors in influencing earnings, indicating the persistence of ethnic inequalities in highly competitive and high-skill markets.
Related links
- QSS and CLS seminar series
- Quantitative Social Science
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Social Research Institute
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Dirk Witteveen
Departmental Lecturer
University of Oxford
Dirk’s research focuses on higher education, wage-setting mechanisms within firms and markets, wealth stratification, racial and ethnic earnings inequalities, immigration, intergenerational social mobility, elitism, mental health, and incarceration.
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