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

Richard Upward (University of Nottingham)

Where

IWH conference room

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.

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