Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 96, issue C, 2025

Promoting public health with blunt instruments: Evidence from vaccine mandates

Rahi Abouk, John S. Earle, Johanna Catherine Maclean and Sungbin Park

Why does temporary work increase disability insurance inflow?

Pierre Koning, Paul Muller and Roger Prudon

Gendered language in job ads and applicant behavior: Evidence from India

Sugat Chaturvedi, Kanika Mahajan and Zahra Siddique

Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hege Gjefsen, Mari Grøsland, Maja W. Grøtting and Bjørn-Atle Reme

Robots for economic development

Massimiliano Calì and Giorgio Presidente

Who picks up the slack? Understanding spousal responses to unemployment spells

Laura Kawano, Sara LaLumia, Shanthi Ramnath and Michael Stevens

Partial retirement opportunities and the labor supply of older individuals

Tunga Kantarcı, Jim Been, Arthur van Soest and Daniël van Vuuren

Paid parental leave and long-term outcomes of children—Quasi-experimental evidence from former East Germany

Katharina Heisig and Larissa Zierow

Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden

Erika Forsberg, Akib Khan and Olof Rosenqvist

Who will work on Sunday? The winners and losers of Sunday laws relaxation

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

Racial representation among academics and students’ academic and labor market outcomes

Angus Holford and Sonkurt Sen

Out for good: Transitory and persistent labor market effects of heterogeneous health shocks

Mattis Beckmannshagen and Johannes Koenig

The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes

Joe Dodd, Luke Munford, Matt Sutton and Igor Francetic

Does the identity of leaders matter for education? Evidence from the first black governor in the US

Mery Ferrando and Véronique Gille

Working from home after COVID-19: Evidence from job postings in 20 countries

Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Alexandre Judes, Michael Koelle, Cyrille Schwellnus and Tara M. Sinclair

Estimation of the wage offer distribution using both accepted and rejected offers

Junjie Guo

Relaxation of fertility restrictions, sibling composition and gender gap in education: Evidence from China’s 1.5-child policy

Xiangbo Liu, Zhiying Sun, Daisheng Tang and Shuai Chu

Understanding labour productivity in maternity wards

Marina Di Giacomo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Luca Salmasi and Gilberto Turati

The ‘acting native’ hypothesis: Evidence from classrooms in four European countries

Andreas Diemer

Equalising the effects of automation? The role of task overlap for job finding

Diego Dabed, Sabrina Genz and Emilie Rademakers

Volume 95, issue C, 2025

The value of school choice opportunities

Lukas Hörnig and Max Schäfer

Earnings expectations of “First-in Family” university students and their role for major choice

Katharina Adler, Fabian Kosse, Markus Nagler and Johannes Rincke

This time it’s different – Generative artificial intelligence and occupational choice

Daniel Goller, Christian Gschwendt and Stefan C. Wolter

Job search under changing labour taxes

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women

Tom Günther, Jakob Conradi and Clemens Hetschko

Performance pay for private program providers and impact on participants: A field experiment with employment services in Norway

Øystein M. Hernæs

Human after all: Occupations at the core of AI adoption

Luca Fontanelli, Flavio Calvino, Chiara Criscuolo, Lionel Nesta and Elena Verdolini

The composition of applicants, mismatch, and matching efficiency in the German VET market

Bernd Fitzenberger, Anna Heusler, Anna Houštecká and Leonie Wicht

What determines the gender pay gap in academia?

Jaan Masso, Jaanika Meriküll, Liis Roosaar, Kärt Rõigas and Tiiu Paas

Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?

Laurenz Baertsch and Malte Sandner

Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?

Lennart Ziegler and Omar Bamieh

Effects of team diversity on individual performance and voice: A field experiment of group composition by gender and language

Valentina Contreras, Chiara Orsini, Berkay Özcan and Johann Koehler

Volume 94, issue C, 2025

Male coaches increase the risk-taking of female teams—Evidence from the NCAA

René Böheim, Christoph Freudenthaler and Mario Lackner

Narrowing industry wage premiums and the decline in the gender wage gap

Marco Palladino, Alexandra Roulet and Mark Stabile

Making the right call: The heterogeneous effects of individual performance pay on productivity

Marco Clemens and Jan Sauermann

The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll and Roberto Quaranta

How is global commerce affecting the gender composition of employment? A firm-level analysis of the effects of exposure to gender norms via trade and FDI

Pia Heckl, Carolina Lennon and Alyssa Schneebaum

Junior doctors’ specialty choice: Stated and revealed preferences over more than a decade

Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott and Peter Sivey

Gender differences in reservation wages in search experiments

Andrew McGee and Peter McGee

Coworker networks and the role of occupations in job finding

Attila Gyetvai and Maria Zhu

Rigid yet resilient: Firms’ margins of adjustment to demand shocks in regulated labour markets

Claudio Lucifora and Federica Origo

Foreign doctors and hospital quality: Evidence from the English NHS

Ioannis Laliotis

Health workforce reallocation in the aftermath of conflict: Evidence from Colombia

Claudio A. Mora-García, Mounu Prem, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes and Juan Vargas

Deunionization and skills

Joseph Pickens

A quantitative analysis of relaxing UI eligibility requirements

Ying H. Chao

Why do labor unions advocate for minimum wage increases?

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

Parental earnings response to children's job loss: Evidence from Finland

Mika Haapanen, Jaakko Pehkonen and Ville Seppälä

The supply of nursing labor in French hospitals: Outflows, part-time work and motherhood

Pierre Pora

Employment effects of a social and labour inclusion programme

Pablo Blanchard, Matias Brum, Paula Carrasco, Cecilia Parada and Ivone Perazzo

Why do you like or dislike your job?

Sangmin Aum, Bongseop Kim and Jungmin Lee

Corrigendum to “The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities” [Labour Economics, 87, 2024, 102509]

Matteo Picchio and Jan C. van Ours

Unveiling citation bias in economics: Taste-based discrimination against Chinese-authored papers

Xiaoliang Yang and Peng Zhou

Hiring mental health professionals: Evidence from a large-scale policy in Brazil

Matías Mrejen and Rudi Rocha

Active labor market policies for the long-term unemployed: New evidence from causal machine learning

Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Tamara Pongratz and Joachim Wolff

The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: Evidence from English women

James Banks, Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson and David Sturrock