Handbook of Labor Economics

by Orley Ashenfelter (Editor), David Card (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444534514
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/28/2010
Series:	ISSN , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	864
File size:	13 MB
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Table of Contents

Developments in Research Methods and their Application
1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Nicole Fortin (University of British Columbia), Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia), and Sergio Firpo (Escola de Economia de São Paulo)
2. Field Experiments in Labor Economics
John List (University of Chicago) and Imran Rasul (University College London)
3. Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
Gary Charness and Peter Kuhn (University of California at Santa Barbara)
4. The Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications
Michael P. Keane (University of Technology, New South Wales), Kenneth I. Wolpin and Petra E. Todd (University of Pennsylvania)
5. Program Evaluation and Research Designs
John DiNardo (University of Michigan) and David S. Lee (Princeton University)
6. Identification of Models of Labor Market
Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) and Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market
Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University) and Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
8. Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
James B. Rebitzer (Boston University) and Lowell J. Taylor (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Leading economists summarize new research on the ways workers shape and are shaped by labor markets

Editorial Reviews

"Labor economics" has continued to expand both in the extent and depth of coverage in recent years. Volume 4 of the Handbook has succeeded in not only updating coverage in many areas, but in synthesizing studies and approaches in ways that contribute importantly to the field. Economists with interests in many areas, ranging from field experiments to gender to early-life human capital investments, will benefit from the excellent chapters in this volume." —Jere R. Behrman, University of Pennsylvania

"Volume 4 very nicely illustrates several important trends in labor economics: increased concern about proper research design, more contact with those in other social sciences, greater reliance on data collected by those conducting the research, and (in some areas) more productive interplay between theory and data. The authors have themselves been major contributors to these developments; they combine a participant's enthusiasm with a detached perspective on the challenges and gaps that remain." —Charles C. Brown, University of Michigan

"The entries in the Handbook of Labor Economics update, deepen, and broaden the analyses contained in earlier volumes. The first-rate papers here address important problems in labor economics, often from new perspectives. As is the case with Volumes 1-3, many of the papers in volume 4 are "must-reads" and sure to make it onto graduate reading lists." —Henry Farber, Princeton University

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