Labour Economics

1993 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. Ichino

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Volume 100, issue C, 2026

The labor market effects of competing and non-competing high-skill immigrants: Evidence from college majors

Brian J. Phelan and William Sander

Automation and local labour markets: Impact of immigrant mobility

Anand Chopra and Ronit Mukherji

Corrigendum to “China’s labour market liberalization harmed women, but more so in regions with traditional gender norms” [Labour Economics 99 (2026) 102862]

Qi Zhang and Bin Zhao

Gritty peers

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Yaming Cao and Ezgi Kaya

Working longer, feeling worse? How job quality shapes the mental health toll of delayed retirement

Alexandra Lugova, Michele Belloni, Bérangère Legendre and Jeremy Tanguy

Train or hire? Labour immigration and firms’ investments in the skilling of workers

Pål Schøne and Marte Strøm

Diffusion of economic shocks in the labor market: Evidence from a mining boom

Gabriel Rodríguez-Puello and Jonna Rickardsson

Gender norms and partners’ joint retirement decisions: learning from a Norwegian reform

Bernt Bratsberg and Elena Stancanelli

Not a lucky break? Why and when a career hiatus hijacks hiring chances

D’hert, Liam, Louis Lippens and Stijn Baert

Gender differences in the effectiveness of hiring subsidies for young unemployed

Astrid Kunze, Marta Palczyńska and Iga Magda

Home (not so) sweet home: Remote work and medical leaves in Brazil

André Mancha and Elisa Peres

The labor market effects of subminimum wage elimination: Evidence from a national analysis

Michelle Yin, Regina Seo and Hoa Vu

Monopsony in academia and the gender pay gap: Evidence from California

Zhanhan Yu and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Occupational choice, human capital and learning: A multi-armed bandit approach

Rafael Lopes de Melo and Theodore Papageorgiou

Corrigendum to “Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the COVID-19 pandemic” [Labour Economics 96 (2025) 102727]

H. Gjefsen, M. Grøsland, M.W. Grøtting and B.A. Reme

Does real estate expansion hurt manufacturing employment: Evidence from China

Zhao Rong, Wenchun Wang and Jiaxing Zhang

Incentives and latent shirking

Rosaria Distefano and Francesco Reito

Impacts of criminal records on labor market outcomes: Theoretical and empirical evidence from Denmark

Shiyun Zhang

The regressive effects of worker protection: The role of financial constraints

Diego Huerta

International graduates and labor market outcomes of native graduates: Evidence from Canada

Kangyu Qiu

The firm side of labour shortages: Five new facts from the OECD-GFP Employer Survey

Francesco Filippucci, Katharina Längle and Luca Marcolin

Geographic variation in fertility: evidence from mover design

Hantao Wu and Man Zhu

Corrigendum to “The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals” [Labour Economics 77 (2022) 102006]

Matthew Shannon

100 volumes of Labour Economics: A bibliometric retrospective

Muhammad Saqlain, José M. Merigó, Ana M. Gil-Lafuente, Finn Kydland and Lluis Amiguet

Volume 99, issue C, 2026

Location, housing and employment opportunities

Vera Chiodi, Bruno Crépon and Guillermo Cruces

College scholarships, poverty, signaling and employment opportunities: Evidence from a field experiment

Jorge Agüero, Francisco Galarza Arellano and Gustavo Yamada

Do levy penalties boost disability hiring in SMEs? Evidence from a Japanese quota reform

Kodai Matsumoto, Yota Okumura, Atsushi Morimoto and Kazufumi Yugami

Unbundling the effects of college on first-job search: Returns to majors, minors, and extracurriculars

Jaime Arellano-Bover, Carolina Bussotti, John M. Nunley and R. Alan Seals

Why are marginal workers unemployed: Low productivity or high opportunity cost of employment?

Saman Darougheh

Employment prospects and firm-based training — Evidence from opening the Swiss-German border

Caroline Neuber-Pohl, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Sandra Dummert and Harald Pfeifer

Preferences for gender diversity in high-profile jobs

Celina Högn, Lea Mayer, Johannes Rincke and Erwin Winkler

Tables have turned: Vertical mismatch across gender

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Gomes and Thepthida Sopraseuth

Do social skills of head teachers affect the mental health of students?

Yuanyuan Chen, Caiting Dong and Yangcheng Yu

Concentrating on his career or hers?: Descriptive evidence on occupational co-agglomeration in dual-earner households

Joanna Venator

The effect of the public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages

Lajos Szabó

China’s labour market liberalization harmed women, but more so in regions with traditional gender norms

Qi Zhang and Bin Zhao

A senior doctor like me: Gender match and occupational choice

Elaine Kelly and Isabel Stockton

Heterogeneous scars in later life: The economic impact of early labour market opportunities

Petru Crudu

Estimating the effect of working from home on parents’ division of childcare and housework: A new panel IV approach

Simone Schüller

More than just work: The effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on job quality

Katherine Michelmore and Natasha Pilkauskas

Volume 98, issue C, 2026

Career preferences and socio-economic background

Paul Schüle

Does immigration affect native wages? A meta-analysis

Amandine Aubry, Jérôme Héricourt, Léa Marchal and Clément Nedoncelle

Older workers, pension reforms and firm outcomes

Francesca Carta, D’Amuri, Francesco and Till von Wachter

Minimum wages in a dual labor market: Evidence from the 2019 minimum-wage hike in Spain

Alexander Hijzen, Mateo Montenegro and Ana Sofia Pessoa

The two faces of worker specialization

Zsofia Barany and Kerstin Holzheu

Replacing labour with capital: Evidence from aggregate mobility shocks

Bharadwaj Kannan, Roberto Pinheiro and Harry J. Turtle

Are households Pareto efficient? A test based on multiple job holding

Jacob Penglase and Ömer F. Sözbir

Partner effects and collaborative learning

Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and Dunia López-Pintado

The long shadow of labor market entry conditions: Intergenerational determinants of mental health

Micole De Vera, Javier Garcia-Brazales and Jiayi Lin

Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence

Riley Acton, Jo R. King and Austin Smith

Labor market dynamics in a highly competitive industry

Francesco Principe and Jan C. van Ours

Skill-biased wage effects of domestic outsourcing

Eren Gürer and Erol Taymaz