• Graduate program
    • Why Tinbergen Institute?
    • Research Master
    • Admissions
    • Course Registration
    • Facilities
    • PhD Vacancies
    • Selected PhD Placements
    • Research Master Business Data Science
  • Research
  • Browse our Courses
  • Summer School
  • Events
    • Summer School
      • Applied Public Policy Evaluation
      • Deep Learning
      • Economics of Blockchain and Digital Currencies
      • Economics of Climate Change
      • Foundations of Machine Learning with Applications in Python
      • From Preference to Choice: The Economic Theory of Decision-Making
      • Gender in Society
      • Machine Learning for Business
      • Marketing Research with Purpose
      • Sustainable Finance
      • Tuition Fees and Payment
      • Business Data Science Summer School Program
    • Events Calendar
    • Events Archive
    • Tinbergen Institute Lectures
    • 16th Tinbergen Institute Annual Conference
    • Annual Tinbergen Institute Conference
  • News
  • Alumni
Home | Events Archive | Racial Disparities in Managerial Career Progression
Seminar

Racial Disparities in Managerial Career Progression


  • Series
    Brown Bag Seminars General Economics
  • Speaker
    Sam Hoey (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Field
    Empirical Microeconomics
  • Location
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, E building, Kitchen/Lounge E1
    Rotterdam
  • Date and time

    June 19, 2025
    12:00 - 13:00

Abstract
We track the post-playing careers of all professional football players who were active in the English top 4 divisions between 1990 and 2010 and ended their playing career by 2013. Out of 4770 individual players, we identify 837 (18%) as Black (or of mixed Black heritage). Around 2% of Black former players eventually obtain a role as first team manager, whereas 9% of the non-Black former players progress to this level. Black former players face three significant impediments in their career progress: lower recruitment rates in junior managerial roles, reduced progression from junior to senior management, and a higher dismissal rate when in senior management. We document the importance of each of these in our sample. We also find that on-field achievements as a player do not alleviate these impediments for Black former players. Joint work with Thomas Peeters (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan).