Lab labor
Subtitle: what can labor economists learn from the lab?
By: Gary Charness, Peter J. Kuhn
Contributors: Kuhn, Peter Joseph; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15913; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15913.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "This chapter surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics.  We begin with a discussion of methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do laboratory experiments compare to field experiments; and what are the main design issues? We then summarize the substantive contributions of laboratory experiments to our understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials, discrimination, job search, and labor markets more generally"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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