Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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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 G. 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 J. Méndez, 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 F. 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 R. 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

Volume 93, issue C, 2025

Workplace segregation and the labour market performance of immigrants

Sébastien Willis

Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism

Miroslava Federicova and Filip Pertold

Erasmus program and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa and Janna Smirnova

Training in late careers — A structural approach

Teresa Backhaus

Firm-specific pay premia and the returns to higher education: Evidence from community colleges

Weixiang Pan

Employee-owned firms and the careers of young workers

Gabriel Burdin and Jose Garcia-Louzao

Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy

Giulio Zanella and Riccardo Salomone

Wage expectations and access to healthcare occupations: Evidence from an information experiment

Juliana Bernhofer, Alessandro Fedele and Mirco Tonin

Working hours, income volatility and public sector employment as insurance

Achtee Al Yussef, Luc Hens and Eva Van Belle

Unemployment insurance and job polarization

Benjamin Griffy, Adrian Masters and Kai You

The value of unemployment insurance: Liquidity vs. insurance value

Victor Hernandez Martinez and Kaixin Liu

Volume 92, issue C, 2025

Is sex ratio a valid distribution factor in a collective model?

Yujung Hwang and Toan Nguyen

Long-term employment effects of the minimum wage in Germany: New data and estimators

Marco Caliendo, Rebecca Olthaus and Nico Pestel

The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market: Evidence from World War II in Japan

Kota Ogasawara and Erika Igarashi

Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job

Moira Daly, Fane Groes and Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen

Gender homophily in job referrals: Evidence from a field study among university students

Karin Hederos, Anna Sandberg, Lukas Kvissberg and Erik Polano

Do minimum wage increases induce changes in work behavior for people with disabilities? Evidence from the AbilityOne program

Jiyoon Kim, Michael Levere and Ellen Magenheim

Robots and labor in nursing homes

Yong Suk Lee, Toshiaki Iizuka and Karen Eggleston

Unlucky migrants: Scarring effect of recessions on the assimilation of the foreign born

Gabriele Lucchetti and Alessandro Ruggieri

Fertility discrimination in the Chinese labor market: Evidence from a correspondence study and an employer survey

Qingxiao Li and Di Xiao

Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and quality of primary care

Eduard Brüll, Davud Rostam-Afschar and Oliver Schlenker

All about the money? The gendered effect of education on industrial and occupational sorting

Anthony Lepinteur and Adrian Nieto Castro

Teaching for happiness: The impact of teachers’ education on student mental health

Xuezheng Qin, Jinjie Tan and Haochen Zhang

The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers’ employment

Alicia De Quinto and Libertad Gonzalez

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health management: Evidence from individual-level universal insurance claims data

Pyoungsik Kim and Dongyoung Kim

Volume 91, issue C, 2024

Gender wage gap among young adults: A comparison across British cohorts

Francesca Foliano, Alex Bryson, Heather Joshi, Bożena Wielgoszewska and David Wilkinson

Improving children's foundational learning through community-school participation: Experimental evidence from rural India

Deepak Kumar, Naveen Sunder, Ricardo Sabates Aysa and Wilima Wadhwa

Paying (and Paving) my way: Extra-class participation and rent extraction

Quynh Huynh

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: Intergenerational wealth mobility in Taiwan

Yu-Wei Luke Chu, Ming-Jen Lin and Huici Nian

Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant missionaries, local churches, and literacy in Colonial Korea

Sascha Becker and Cheongyeon Won

The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile

Annabelle Doerr and Rafael Novella

Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model

Maximilian Blömer, Nicole Guertzgen, Laura Pohlan, Holger Stichnoth and Gerard J. van den Berg

Pension reforms and couples’ labour supply decisions

Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick A. Puhani and Joanna Tyrowicz

How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment?

Taiyo Fukai, Daiji Kawaguchi, Ayako Kondo and Izumi Yokoyama

Labour market impacts of the China shock: Why the tide of Globalisation did not lift all boats

David Dorn and Peter Levell

The labor market effects of facilitating social security contributions under part-time employment contracts: Evidence from Colombia

Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, Andrea Otero-Cortés and Leonardo Fabio Morales

The value of commuting time, flexibility, and job security: Evidence from current and recent jobseekers in Flanders

Bert Van Landeghem, Thomas Dohmen, Arne Hole and Annemarie Künn-Nelen

Heterogeneous effects of monetary and non-monetary job characteristics on job attractiveness in nursing

Martin Kroczek and Philipp Kugler

Decomposing the exporter wage gap: Selection or differential returns?

Jonas Ehn Bødker, Jonas Maibom and Rune Vejlin

The effects of board gender quotas: A meta-analysis

Costanza De Acutis, Andrea Weber and Elisabeth Wurm

Health information and the timing of social security benefit entitlements

Perry Singleton

Short-term labor supply response to the timing of transfer payments: Evidence from the SNAP program

Mindy Marks, Silvia Prina and Redina Tahaj

Distribution of vacancies and new hires across employers: Implications for job offers, skill requirements, and employers’ search outcomes

Vera Brenčič

Estimating heterogeneous effects: Applications to labor economics

Stéphane Bonhomme and Angela Denis

Golfing CEOs

Yutaro Izumi, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Masayuki Yagasaki

Television and family demography: Evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany

Sven A. Hartmann

Mother tongue-based education in a diverse society and the acquisition of foundational skills: Evidence from the Philippines

Takiko Igarashi, Sandy Maulana and Daniel Suryadarma

The disability pay gap in the UK: What is the role of the public sector?

Melanie Jones

Good personality traits in bad times: Does conscientiousness mitigate the adverse effects of graduating in a recession?

Liwen Chen and Guanghua Wang

The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann and Anne C. Gielen

Job loss, consumption insurance, and household time allocation

Kenta Fukuda

Equilibrium effects of payroll tax reductions and optimal policy design

Thomas Breda, Luke Haywood and Haomin Wang

Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany

Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer and Sascha Satlukal

Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda

Andrew Brudevold-Newman and Diego Ubfal

Incentive contracts with pay gap and pay equity

Jaesoo Kim