| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系 === 103 === Wage discrimination is an important issue in Economics of Sport. Many empirical researches had proved that professional sport players who had the same performance might face wage differentials because of their race or nationality. With wage discrimination, would sport players try their best to make contributions to their teams? Would teams have the ability to retain good players? What is the cause of wage discrimination? The issues above are worth a discussion. This study focused on the nationality wage discrimination and consumer discrimination of Korean professional baseball players and took Korean Major League Baseball players as research objects. It collected data such as wage, players’ performance, teams and players’ personal attributes, nationality, annual audience attendance at home match, teams’ winning rate and the population in host cities among eight baseball team players from 2001 to 2010, including 775 pitchers and fielders (397 pitchers &; 378 fielders) , and Ordinary Least Squares was used to analyze data. Main research findings were as follows: First, in Korean professional baseball, both foreign fielders and foreign pitchers showed opposite nationality wage discrimination. Second, in the wage samples over the average, both foreign fielders’ wage and foreign pitchers’ wage had no significant difference between Korean fielders’ and pitchers’ wage. Third, consumer discrimination existed in Korean professional baseball. Baseball fans preferred to watch foreign pitchers instead of watching Korean pitchers. The free agent system, salary arbitration system, wage limitation system formulated by the league, evaluation errors of players’ performance by baseball teams and consumer discrimination might be the main reasons of nationality wage discrimination. If the upper limit of foreign players’ wage was removed, nationality wage discrimination might become more obvious. Therefore, Korean baseball teams should evaluate players’ performance carefully in order to avoid wasting resource, and they also need to view the salary structure and set the salary criterion more appropriately. As for Korean Baseball Organization, they ought to protect players’ right through the free agent system, salary arbitration system and wage limitation system.
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