Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize
Posted on 16 Nov 2009 around 4pm
Congratulations to Dr Victoria Prowse on the award of the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the social sciences.
The Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize is awarded to scholars in the early stages of their career who have shown outstanding promise, and is intended to support the further career development of young researchers. The prize will support Victoria’s research using experimental methods to study the nature of interactions between individuals in a labour market context.
This project will combine emerging behavioural theories, such as loss aversion, reciprocity and preference for status with models of labour market interactions to generate predictions concerning individual behaviour in a variety of different labour market settings. These predictions will then be tested using data collected from laboratory experiments. The results of this research project will improve our understanding of what motivates workers and provide a firmer foundation for policymakers when determining labour market regulations.