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The hazard of being an English football league manager: empirical estimates for three recent league seasons

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posted on 2023-06-07, 14:16 authored by Barry ReillyBarry Reilly, Raymond Bachan, Robert Witt
This paper uses data drawn from the English Football League to model separate hazard rates for club managers for the 2001/2, 2002/3 and 2003/4 seasons. On average over the three seasons, approximately one-third of managers involuntarily exited employment status with their club. We model the hazard using a standard logistic model exploiting information on the spell at risk rather than the individual. The role of neglected heterogeneity is also examined using random and fixed effects logistic models within a discrete-time setting. League position at the start of the spell at risk is found to be the most important determinant of a manager’s involuntary exit. A variety of individual specific human capital and other covariates are found to be unimportant in determining the hazard and no role for unobservable heterogeneity as captured by random effects is detected.

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  • Published

Journal

Journal of the Operational Research Society

ISSN

0160-5682

Issue

7

Volume

59

Page range

884-891

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2008-10-27

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