TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Charness, Gary
AU  - Kuhn, Peter J.
        TI  - Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
        PY  - 2010/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4941
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4941
        AB  - This paper 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.
        KW  - laboratory experiments
KW  - principal-agent theory
KW  - personnel economics
KW  - labor economics
        ER  -