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Subject(s)

• Labor economics [Browse]

Related name

• Ashenfelter, Orley, 1942- [Browse]
• Card, David [Browse]

Series

• Handbooks in economics [More in this series]
• Handbook of Labor Economics [More in this series]
• Handbooks in economics ; 4A [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Front cover; Half title page; Introduction to the series; Title page; Copyright page; Contents of Volume 4A; Contents of Volume 4B; Contributors to Volume 4A; Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics; 1. Introduction; 2. Identification: What Can We Estimate Using Decomposition Methods?; 3. Oaxaca-Blinder---Decompositions of Mean Wages Differentials; 4. Going beyond the Mean---Distributional Methods; 5. Detailed Decompositions for General Distributional Statistics; 6. Extensions; 7. Conclusion; References; Chapter 2. Field Experiments in Labor Economics; 1. Introduction; 2. Human Capital
• 3. Labor Market Discrimination4. Firms; 5. Households; 6. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3. Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?; 1. Why Laboratory Experiments?; 2. Issues in Designing Laboratory Experiments; 3. Testing ``Traditional'' Principal-Agent Theory in the Lab; 4. Towards Behavioral Principal-Agent Theory: Fairness, Social Preferences and Effort; 5. More Lab Labor: Bargaining, Search, Markets, and Discrimination; 6. Conclusions; References
• Chapter 4. The Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications1. Introduction; 2. The Latent Variable Framework for Discrete Choice Problems; 3. The Common Empirical Structure of Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Models; 4. Applications; 5. Concluding Remarks---How Credible are DCDP Models?; References; Chapter 5. Program Evaluation and Research Designs; 1. Introduction; 2. Scope and Background; 3. Research Designs Dominated by Knowledge of the Assignment Process; 4. Research Designs Dominated by Self-Selection
• 5. Program Evaluation: Lessons and ChallengesReferences; Chapter 6. Identification of Models of the Labor Market; 1. Introduction; 2. Econometric Preliminaries; 3. The Roy Model; 4. The Generalized Roy Model; 5. Treatment Effects; 6. Duration Models and Search Models; 7. Forward looking dynamic models; 8. Conclusions; Technical Appendix; References; Chapter 7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market; 1. Cyclical Fluctuations; 2. Trends; 3. Conclusion; References; Chapter 8. Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
• 1. Introduction2. Agency and Extrinsic Rewards; 3. Extrinsic rewards and dual-purpose incentives; 4. Behavioral approaches to agency and motivation; 5. Dual-Purpose incentives: can pay destroy intrinsic motivation?; 6. Conclusions; References; Subject Index to Volume 4A; Subject Index to Volume 4B

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ISBN

• 9786612994319
• 9781282994317
• 128299431X
• 9780444534514
• 0444534512

OCLC

• 813307910
• 852255487

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