Journal of Labor Economics

1983 - 2009

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2006, volume 24, issue 4

The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling pp. 729-760

Philip Oreopoulos and Marianne Elizabeth Page

The Enrollment Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid: Evidence from Georgia's HOPE Program pp. 761-786

Christopher Cornwell, David B. Mustard and Deepa J. Sridhar

The Relationship between Women's Education and Marriage Outcomes pp. 787-830

Lars Lefgren and Frank McIntyre

Lasting or Latent Scars? Swedish Evidence on the Long-Term Effects of Job Displacement pp. 831-856

Marcus Eliason and Donald Storrie

Optimal Promotion Policies with the Looking-Glass Effect pp. 857-878

Junichiro Ishida

Life-Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Income: Replication and Extension for Sweden pp. 879-900

Anders Bohlmark and Matthew J. Lindquist

2006, volume 24, issue 3

Selective Counteroffers pp. 385-410

John Barron, Mark C. Berger and Dan Black

The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior pp. 411-482

James J. Heckman, Jora Stixrud and Sergio Urzua

Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching pp. 483-520

Christopher R. Bollinger and Barry Hirsch

Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Reanalysis of the California GAIN Program pp. 521-566

V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens and Jacob A. Klerman

The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes pp. 567-608

Andrew Dyke, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, Kenneth R. Troske and Kyung-Seong Jeon

The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums pp. 609-634

Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra

The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity pp. 635-660

Donald S. Kenkel, Dean Lillard and Alan Mathios

Bias-Corrected Estimates of GED Returns pp. 661-700

James J. Heckman and Paul Anthony LaFontaine

Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality pp. 701-728

Dan Black and Jeffrey Andrew Smith

2006, volume 24, issue 2

Immigrants and the Labor Market pp. 203-234

James P. Smith

Technical Change, Job Tasks, and Rising Educational Demands: Looking outside the Wage Structure pp. 235-270

Alexandra Spitz-Oener

For Better or Forever: Formal versus Informal Enforcement pp. 271-298

Joel Sobel

Some Contacts Are More Equal than Others: Informal Networks, Job Tenure, and Wages pp. 299-318

Linda Datcher Loury

Using Military Deployments and Job Assignments to Estimate the Effect of Parental Absences and Household Relocations on Children's Academic Achievement pp. 319-350

David S. Lyle

How Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Affects the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 351-350

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

2006, volume 24, issue 1

Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries pp. 1-38

Ghazala Azmat, Maia Güell and Alan Manning

Clean Evidence on Peer Effects pp. 39-58

Armin Falk and Andrea Ichino

Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics inside Firms pp. 59-108

Robert Gibbons and Michael Waldman

Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Matching Equilibrium pp. 109-138

Melvyn Glyn Coles and Adrian M. Masters

Team Incentives in Relational Employment Contracts pp. 139-170

Ola Kvaløy and Trond E. Olsen

Optimal CEO Compensation: Some Equivalence Results pp. 171-201

Chongwoo Choe

2005, volume 23, issue 4

Entrepreneurship pp. 649-680

Edward Lazear

Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination pp. 681-724

Robert Gibbons, Lawrence F. Katz, Thomas Lemieux and Daniel Parent

The Role of Comparative Advantage and Learning in Wage Dynamics and Intrafirm Mobility: Evidence from Germany pp. 725-768

Stéphanie Lluis

The Effect of Income Taxation on Consumption and Labor Supply pp. 769-796

James P. Ziliak and Thomas J. Kniesner

Threat of Dismissal: Incentive or Sorting? pp. 797-838

Illoong Kwon

Targeted Remedial Education for Underperforming Teenagers: Costs and Benefits pp. 839-874

Victor Chaim Lavy and Analia Schlosser

Contractual Wages and the Wage Cushion under Different Bargaining Settings pp. 875-874

Ana Rute Cardoso and Pedro Portugal

2005, volume 23, issue 3

Doctors without Borders? Relicensing Requirements and Negative Selection in the Market for Physicians pp. 437-466

Adriana D. Kugler and Robert M. Sauer

Job Search and Savings: Wealth Effects and Duration Dependence pp. 467-490

Rasmus Lentz and Torben Tranas

Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Japanese American Internment during World War II on Working-Age Male Internees pp. 491-526

Aimee Chin

Job Search and Impatience pp. 527-588

Stefano DellaVigna and M. Daniele Paserman

Agency Contracts with Long-Term Customer Relationships pp. 589-608

Ignatius J. Horstmann, Frank Mathewson and Neil Quigley

Changes in U.S. Wages, 19762000: Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change? pp. 609-648

Paul Beaudry and David A. Green

2005, volume 23, issue 2

Specific Training Sometimes Cuts Wages and Always Cuts Turnover pp. 213-234

Lalith Munasinghe and Brendan O'Flaherty

Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data pp. 235-258

Christopher R. Bollinger and Amitabh Chandra

External Recruitment as an Incentive Device pp. 259-278

Kong-Pin Chen

Alcohol Use, Human Capital, and Wages pp. 279-312

Jeremy W. Bray

Do Employers Provide Insurance against Low Frequency Shocks? Industry Employment and Industry Wages pp. 313-340

Paul J. Devereux

Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence pp. 341-372

Leif Danziger and Shoshana Neuman

Counteroffers and Efficiency in Labor Markets with Asymmetric Information pp. 373-372

Limor Golan

2005, volume 23, issue 1

The Economics of Real Superstars: The Market for Rock Concerts in the Material World pp. 1-30

Alan B. Krueger

On-the-Job Search and the Wage Distribution pp. 31-58

Bent Jesper Christensen, Rasmus Lentz, Dale T. Mortensen, George R. Neumann and Axel Werwatz

New Immigrants' Location Choices: Magnets without Welfare pp. 59-80

Neeraj Kaushal

Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers? pp. 81-114

Jarle Møen

Firm-Sponsored General Training pp. 115-134

Felipe Balmaceda

Intermarriage and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants pp. 135-176

Xin Meng and Robert George Gregory

The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Child Development pp. 177-176

Susanne James-Burdumy