Abstract:There is an open debate about the motivation of football referees to start and progress in their profession. Identifying altruistic and self-servicing factors is critical for the federations to establish the most effective policies to enlarge the referee’s career and minimise turnover. In this work, the null hypothesis was set to be that the number of referees in Madrid is not affected by the unemployment rate (as a proxy of income level). Sequential linear regressions generated three different models using da… Show more
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