Handbook of labor economics Volume 4A
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 subjec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co North-Holland
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Handbooks in economics
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| Collection: | Elsevier Handbooks in Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 v. 4A. Decomposition methods in economics / Nicole Fortin, Thomas Lemieux, Sergio Firpo ; Field experiments in labor economics / John A. List, Imran Rasul ; Lab labor: what can labor economists learn from the lab? / Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn ; The structural estimation of behavioral models: discrete choice dynamic programming methods and applications / Michael P. Keane, Petra E. Todd, Kenneth I. Wolpin ; Program evaluation and research designs / John DiNardo, David S. Lee ; Identification of models of the labor market / Eric French, Christopher Taber ; Search in macroeconomic models of the labor market ; Extrinsic rewards and instrinsic motives: standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets / James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 772 pages illustrations |