Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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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 Adrián Nieto

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 González

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 Risa 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

Volume 90, issue C, 2024

The causal effect of genetic variants linked to cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes

Thomas Buser, Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger and Sven Oskarsson

The effects of gender-specific local labor demand on birth and later outcomes

Mika Akesaka and Nobuyoshi Kikuchi

Grand-parenthood and retirement

Amedeus Malisa

Employment discrimination and labor market protections for sexual minorities in Brazil

Jennifer Graves and Christopher Trond

The resilience in test scores and the mitigating effect of summer schools one year after the COVID-19 school closures

Letizia Gambi and Kristof De Witte

Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations

Lídia Farré and Francesc Ortega

Effects of workload allocation per course on students’ academic outcomes: Evidence from STEM degrees

Carmen Aina, Koray Aktaş and Giorgia Casalone

The labor market impacts of ridesharing on American Cities

Tucker Omberg

Early retirement incentives and transition into informality

Gunes Asik

Corrigendum to “Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance” [Labour Economics 88 (2024) 102545]

Sophie Xuefei Wang and Cynthia Bansak

Works councils as gatekeepers: Codetermination, management practices, and job satisfaction

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka and Krystina Titz

Students under academic pressure and their spillover effects on peers’ mental well-being

Yoosik Shin

Semiparametric distribution regression with instruments and monotonicity

Dominik Wied

Effects of mandatory residencies on female physicians’ specialty choices: Evidence from Japan's new medical residency program

Tsunao Okumura, Yuko Ueno and Emiko Usui

Merit-based scholarships for university graduates: A generation of Italian economists

Enrico Nano, Ugo Panizza and Martina Viarengo

Grading student behavior

Florian Schoner, Lukas Mergele and Larissa Zierow

Mandatory activation of welfare recipients: Less time, less crime?

Marco Stam, Marike Knoef and Anke Ramakers

Do surging house prices discourage fertility? Global evidence, 1870–2012

Wenchao Li

Economic shocks and skill acquisition: Evidence from a national online learning platform at the onset of COVID-19

Ina Ganguli, Jamal Haidar, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Samuel Stemper and Basit Zafar

Temperament traits and economic preferences predict occupational choice beyond human capital variables

Mikko Vaaramo, Sanna Huikari, Leena Ala-Mursula, Jouko Miettunen and Marko Korhonen

Parental job loss and children’s career choices

Kristiina Huttunen and Krista Riukula

Subjective unemployment expectations and (self-)insurance

Ida Maria Hartmann and Søren Leth-Petersen

Can work sharing sustain employment during economic downturn? Evidence from Brazil

Tulio A. Cravo, Paulo de Andrade Jacinto and Rodrigo Quintana

Does information disclosure affect the gender gap in bidding behavior? Empirical evidence from a natural experiment on a large online labor platform

Estrella Gomez-Herrera and Frank Mueller-Langer

Do temporary help agencies help? Employment transitions for low-skilled workers

Raquel Carrasco, Ismael Gálvez-Iniesta and Belén Jerez

Community colleges and careers: Evidence from nursing school lotteries

Michel Grosz

Labour supply and the cost of house price booms and busts

Hamish Low and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

Minimum wages and the uptake of Supplemental Security Income

Krishna Regmi

Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects

Mareen Bastiaans, Robert Dur and Anne C. Gielen

Job ladders and labour market assimilation of immigrants

Andrei Gorshkov

Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services

Elisabeth Leduc and Ilan Tojerow

The intergenerational correlation of employment: Mothers as role models?

Gabriela Galassi, David Koll and Lukas Mayr

A cycle or a tunnel? A study on unemployment and low-pay dynamics in Italy

Michele Bavaro and Federico Tullio

Is private education worth it? Evidence from school-to-work transitions in Chile

Dante Contreras, Jorge Rodriguez and Sergio Urzúa

Can leagues mitigate the demoralization effect of rank feedback? A randomized controlled trial

J. Chen, Loretti Dobrescu, Gigi Foster and A. Motta

Overeducation in the EU: Gender and regional dimension

Jan A. Baran

Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market — An application to polarization

Joanne Tan

Migration barrier relaxation and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the hukou reform in China

Xinyan Liu, Yunjiao Xu and Jian Zou

Does scarcity of female instructors create demand for diversity among students? Evidence from an M-Turk experiment

Patricia Funk, Nagore Iriberri and Giulia Savio

Corrigendum to “The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions” [Labor Economics, Volume 85, 2023, 102433]

Anthony Edo and Cem Özgüzel