Handbook of Labor Economics (eBook)

Orley Ashenfelter, David Card (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
864 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-444-53451-4 (ISBN)

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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

Inhalt

Front cover 1
Half title page 2
Introduction to the series 3
Title page 4
Copyright page 5
Contents of Volume 4A 6
Contents of Volume 4B 10
Contributors to Volume 4A 14
Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics 17
1. Introduction 18
2. Identification: What Can We Estimate Using Decomposition Methods? 29
3. Oaxaca-Blinder---Decompositions of Mean Wages Differentials 52
4. Going beyond the Mean---Distributional Methods 68
5. Detailed Decompositions for General Distributional Statistics 90
6. Extensions 103
7. Conclusion 112
References 113
Chapter 2. Field Experiments in Labor Economics 119
1. Introduction 120
2. Human Capital 156
3. Labor Market Discrimination 165
4. Firms 193
5. Households 224
6. Concluding Remarks 229
References 229
Chapter 3. Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab? 245
1. Why Laboratory Experiments? 247
2. Issues in Designing Laboratory Experiments 254
3. Testing ``Traditional'' Principal-Agent Theory in the Lab 262
4. Towards Behavioral Principal-Agent Theory: Fairness, Social Preferences and Effort 292
5. More Lab Labor: Bargaining, Search, Markets, and Discrimination 310
6. Conclusions 328
References 331
Chapter 4. The Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications 347
1. Introduction 348
2. The Latent Variable Framework for Discrete Choice Problems 351
3. The Common Empirical Structure of Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Models 352
4. Applications 387
5. Concluding Remarks---How Credible are DCDP Models? 468
References 471
Chapter 5. Program Evaluation and Research Designs 479
1. Introduction 480
2. Scope and Background 484
3. Research Designs Dominated by Knowledge of the Assignment Process 496
4. Research Designs Dominated by Self-Selection 532
5. Program Evaluation: Lessons and Challenges 545
References 548
Chapter 6. Identification of Models of the Labor Market 553
1. Introduction 554
2. Econometric Preliminaries 555
3. The Roy Model 561
4. The Generalized Roy Model 576
5. Treatment Effects 583
6. Duration Models and Search Models 607
7. Forward looking dynamic models 615
8. Conclusions 625
Technical Appendix 625
References 630
Chapter 7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market 635
1. Cyclical Fluctuations 639
2. Trends 679
3. Conclusion 707
References 710
Chapter 8. Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets 717
1. Introduction 718
2. Agency and Extrinsic Rewards 721
3. Extrinsic rewards and dual-purpose incentives 737
4. Behavioral approaches to agency and motivation 743
5. Dual-Purpose incentives: can pay destroy intrinsic motivation? 763
6. Conclusions 780
References 782
Subject Index to Volume 4A 789
Subject Index to Volume 4B 823

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
• ISBN-10: 0-444-53451-2 / 0444534512
• ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53451-4 / 9780444534514