Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach

By Theresa J. Devine

Presenting a complete survey of labor economics from the search point of view, this is the first book to coordinate a vast and scattered literature, making an increasingly important and sophisticated area in modern applied economics readily accessible. Completely comprehensive, Empirical Labor Economics covers not only sequential and random search, but all stochastic models of the labor market, and treats underlying economic theory and econometric methods as needed. It examines structural search models, studies directed at particular policy questions--such as the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations--and simple descriptive studies, considering data from all over the world. With valuable summaries and trenchant assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of the search approach, Empirical Labor Economics is essential for those embarking on labor market research.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059360
• ISBN13: 9780195059366
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent review

This book reviews several areas within labour economics where search theory has been applied to explain unemployment, labour supply and labour demand. The coverage is quite good, although by 2000 is may be a bit out-dated. When I began learning about search theory and its application to labour economics, this was the main book to get an insight and learnt about the empirical results reached until then.