Book description
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?
"Developments in Research Methods and their Application" (volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses.
- Investigates recent advances in methods and models used in labor economics
- Demonstrates what these new tools and techniques can accomplish
- Documents how conceptual models and empirical work explain important practical issues
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contents of Volume 4A
- Contents of Volume 4B
- Contributors to Volume 4A
- Chapter 1: Decomposition Methods in Economics
- Chapter 2: Field Experiments in Labor Economics
- Chapter 3: Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
- Chapter 4: The Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications
- Chapter 5: Program Evaluation and Research Designs
- Chapter 6: Identification of Models of the Labor Market
- Chapter 7: Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market
- Chapter 8: Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
- Subject Index to Volume 4A
- Subject Index to Volume 4B
Product information
- Title: HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2010
- Publisher(s): North Holland
- ISBN: 9780444534514
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