Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4, Part 1Orley Ashenfelter, David Card 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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Contents
Chapter 1 Decomposition Methods in Economics | 1 |
Chapter 2 Field Experiments in Labor Economics | 103 |
What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab? | 229 |
Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications | 331 |
Chapter 5 Program Evaluation and Research Designs | 463 |
Chapter 6 Identification of Models of the Labor Market | 537 |
Chapter 7 Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market | 619 |
Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets | 701 |
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