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14:15 - 15:45
IWH Research Seminar
DEC
2017
14:15 - 15:45
Social Comparisons in Job Search: Experimental Evidence
Using a laboratory experiment we examine how social comparisons affect behavior in a sequential search task. In a control treatment, subjects search in isolation while in two other treatments subjects get feedback on the search decisions and outcomes of a partner subject.
Who
(University of Nottingham)
Where
Personal details
Richard Upward is Professor of Labour Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham. His research areas are labour economics and applied econometrics.
