Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 97, issue C, 2025

Social networks and job referrals in recruitment

Marie Lalanne

Minimum wage increases and vacancies

Marianna Kudlyak, Murat Tasci and Didem Tüzemen

Tip suggestions and service efficiency

Guangli Zhang and Jeffrey Cross

First generation college students and peer effects

Michael S. Kofoed and Todd R. Jones

The Hedgehog’s curse: Knowledge specialization and displacement loss

Victor Hernandez Martinez, Hans A. Holter and Roberto Pinheiro

Gender norms and child penalties

Radine Rafols

Work less but stay longer — Mature worker responses to a flexibility reform

Erik Hernæs, Zhiyang Jia, John Piggott and Trond Christian Vigtel

Disentangling structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change

Dominik Boddin and Thilo Kroeger

The effects of tenure-track systems on selection and productivity in Economics

Marco Giovanni Nieddu, Roberto Nisticò and Lorenzo Pandolfi

The impact of terrorism on education: Evidence from the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan

Saqib Hussain and Chungeun Yoon

Intergenerational transmission of time preferences: Evidence from rural Thailand

Suparee W. Boonmanunt, Wasinee Jantorn, Varunee Khruapradit and Weerachart T. Kilenthong

Long-run impacts of fertility restriction policy on China’s gender gap in career advancement

Chen Chen

Gendered effects of community bereavement on time use: Evidence from the Sewol ferry disaster

Dongyoung Kim and Sok Chul Hong

Women as breadwinners: A multifaceted relocation program and women’s labour market outcomes

Yawen Ding, Xiaobing Wang, Alan de Brauw and Huanguang Qiu

How IT-specialized majors pay off: Evidence from an IT industry shock

Tianze Liu

Gender mix prescription: Is it the cure for job satisfaction and retention?

Margherita Agnoletto and Martina Repetto

The impact of flexibility at work on fertility

Bernt Bratsberg and Selma Walther

Career concerns as a public good: The role of signaling for open source software development

Lena Abou El-Komboz and Moritz Goldbeck

Peer effects on college choice: Evidence from affirmative action in China

Mengying Peng and Xiaoyang Ye

Import competition and the rise of precarious employment: Evidence from individual-level and firm-level data in China

Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang and Hartmut Lehmann

Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups

Yuxuan Zhang

Breaking barriers: The impacts of employer exposure to immigrants

Steven F. Lehrer, Louis-Pierre Lepage and Nuno Sousa Pereira

Wage setting protocols and labor market conditions: Theory and evidence

Stanislav Rabinovich, Brenda Samaniego de la Parra and Ronald Wolthoff

Inequality in pension contribution gaps1

Salvador Valdés-Prieto and Samuel Leyton

Work meaning and fair wages

Thimo De Schouwer, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Iris Kesternich and Heiner Schumacher

Tuition fees and academic (in)activity

Johannes Berens, Leandro Henao and Kerstin Schneider

Asymmetric labor supply responses to tax rate reform: Experimental evidence

Katharina Pfeil, Matthias Kasper, Sarah Necker and Lars Feld

Market-oriented reforms and human capital reallocation in urban China: A gender perspective

Pengzhan Qian

Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy

Brock M. Wilson

Gender differences in preferences for flexible work hours: Experimental evidence from an online freelancing platform

Rakesh Banerjee, Tushar Bharati, Adnan M.S. Fakir, Yiwei Qian and Naveen Sunder

Are ‘good’ firms, good for all employees?

Matteo Targa

Firms, industries and the gender wage gap

Shira Buzaglo-Baris

Persistence and seasonal long memory in unemployment in the United States

Guilherme de Oliveira Lima Cagliari Marques and Mateus Gonzalez de Freitas Pinto

Labor costs and domestic value added: Evidence based on the China’s new Labor Contract law

Dongmin Kong, Yifan Jin and Shasha Liu

Knowledge economy, internal migration, and local labour markets

Agar Brugiavini, Marco Di Cataldo and Giulia Romani

On the road to social mobility? Affirmative action and major choice

Fernanda Estevan, Thomas Gall and Louis-Philippe Morin

Deconstructing job search behavior

Stefano Banfi, Sekyu Choi and Benjamín Villena-Roldán

Labour market outcomes of minimum wage changes: A behavioural perspective

Tong Wang

The effects of negative labor market conditions at entry: Evidence from the 2004–05 NHL lockout

Chengyuan Hua and Brad R. Humphreys

Divorce, parental conflicts and child skills: A story of selection

Gloria Moroni and Alexander Vickery

Volume 96, issue C, 2025

Promoting public health with blunt instruments: Evidence from vaccine mandates

Rahi Abouk, John 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 Daniel 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 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