Álvaro La Parra-Pérez

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Full-time dad, husband, and pancreas sub at Weber State University.
Too economist to be a historian. Too historian to be an economist.
My opinions are likely the slaves of some defunct economist.
Missing home, wherever that is.
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Álvaro La Parra-PérezJun 13, 2024
https://nadaesgratis.es/admin/la-prima-salarial-saudi-a-las-estrellas-del-futbol
La prima salarial saudí a las estrellas del fútbol

Por Matt Gnagey y Álvaro La Parra Pérez Crédito: Footy.com Images (Flickr) En el verano de 2023, la irrupción de Arabia Saudí en el mundo del fútbol sacudió los cimientos del deporte rey. Aunque la liga saudita ya había atraído la atención de los focos cuando el equipo Al Nassr contrató a Cris

Nada es Gratis
Show threadÁlvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024
We conclude that the premium probably arises from the need to compensate for the many professional, political, and social disamenities when relocating to Saudi Arabia: less competitive clubs on the international stage, human rights violations, other urban disamenities... /End
Show threadÁlvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024

Do cultural differences drive the premium? It does not seem so. Players from Arabic-speaking or Islamic countries do not get a lower premium, and the cultural distance between the player's country of origin and Saudi Arabia is not a significant driver of the premium either.

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Show threadÁlvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024

The result is robust to a bunch of alternative specifications. When using a propensity score matching to deal with the selection bias of those going to the Saudi League, the premium remains at about 400% (about €14 million per year)

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Show threadÁlvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024

The unconditional Saudi wage premium is about 200-300% of players' gross annual wage in their former club. After controlling for individual characteristics, it gets closer to 500%

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Show threadÁlvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024
We collected many individual characteristics. Players hired by Saudi clubs are older, with more international experience, & higher quality. This is consistent with Saudi government's goal to improve its football quality and the country's image (sportswashing: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/revealed-saudi-arabia-6bn-spend-on-sportswashing) 3/7
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s $6bn spend on ‘sportswashing’

Exclusive: Billions deployed since early 2021 in a move critics say is an attempt to distract from human rights record

The Guardian
Show threadÁlvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024

We built a dataset with the 345 players that moved from one top European league (Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1, Premier League, or Serie A) to another club in those same leagues or the Saudi Pro League in the summer of 2023. The key variable is the change in salary from 2022-3 to 2023-4

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Álvaro La Parra-PérezJun 12, 2024

Last summer, the Saudi Football League attracted an unprecedented number of star players from European clubs (Benzema, Neymar, Mané...). In a recent working paper, Matt Gnagey and I examined the premium wage Saudi clubs paid. The answer? A whopping 400%!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kxGFymgYizFkXVvwDhI9vDcr7WB2_dSt/view

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Gnagey & La Parra-Perez - Working Paper - The Saudi Wage Premium.pdf

Google Docs
Álvaro La Parra-PérezApr 19, 2024
sltribApr 16, 2024
The gender wage gap in Utah tech is so bad that men could stop working after October and still make the same money women do at the end of the year.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/business/2024/04/16/pay-disparities-equal-2-months/
Pay disparities equal 2 months of free labor for this group of Utah tech workers

If women in Utah’s tech industry were paid what men make, they could stop working sometime in late October and take home the same paycheck for the year as they do now, according to an analysis of industry salaries nationwide.

The Salt Lake Tribune
Álvaro La Parra-PérezApr 2, 2024
Each time I read a piece with self-declared liberals denouncing the alleged excesses of DEI on campus because they feel like "tiptoeing on eggshells," I'm reminded of those who, after #MeToo, said they no longer knew how to interact with women: you --not the movement- are the ones with a (huge) problem, and should seek help.