Labour Economics

1993 - 2026

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Volume 102, issue C, 2026

Misclassification in linear-in-means models: Theory and application to peer effects estimation

Fanny Valli-Puljic, Simone Balestra and Beatrix Eugster

The origins of the gender pay gap: Education and job characteristics

Giulia Bovini, Marta De Philippis and Lucia Rizzica

The end of work feels near. How do people perceive the impact of digital technologies and automation?

Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Blesse and Philipp Doerrenberg

The mismeasurement of work time: Implications for wage differentials and inequality

George J. Borjas and Daniel Hamermesh

Gender transition and labor market outcomes: A sibling-based comparison of transgender individuals in Sweden

Erwan Dujeancourt

Poverty, hardship, and government transfers

Jeehoon Han, Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

Labor market effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Anil Kumar

Predicting retirement and Social Security claiming decisions using machine learning

Alexander Kwon and Lilia Maliar

An Evaluation of a National Program to Reduce Student Absenteeism in High School

Michael Baker, Nina Drange and Hege Marie Gjefsen

Work disability after motherhood: How paternity leave can help

Sébastien Fontenay and Ilan Tojerow

The local economic impact of international students: Evidence from US commuting zones

Tung Dang

Keeping it in the family: Student to degree match

Richard Murphy and Pedro Luís Silva

Public childcare and maternal employment in Brazil

Viviane Sanfelice

The returns to host-country college for immigrants

Jacob Arendt

Cross-border labor outflows, turnover, and adjustments of firms

Emanuele Dicarlo

Learning in creative tasks: Evidence from a digital platform

Jiatong Zhong

The rise of work from home and its impact on job satisfaction

Marco Angrisani, Arie Kapteyn and Francisco Perez-Arce

Overqualification and the child penalty: Unpacking gender mismatch gaps in the UK

Vsevolod Iakovlev and Cristina Tealdi

The consequences of state policy ideology for education and inequality

Ugo antonio Troiano

Let’s roll back! The challenging task of regulating temporary contracts

Davide Fiaschi and Cristina Tealdi

Making reference-dependent preferences: Evidence from door-to-door sales

Samuel Dodini

Conditionality vs. autonomy: What works best in social assistance?

Timo Verlaat, Stephanie Rosenkranz, Loek Groot and Mark Sanders

Beggars cannot be choosers: Labor market tightness, hiring standards, wages, and hiring costs

Carolin Linckh, Samuel Muehlemann and Harald Pfeifer

The impact of credit frictions on immigrants’ labor market outcomes

Esteban Argudo

Public child care and mothers’ career trajectories

Katrin Huber and Geske Rolvering

Greedy work: Signaling and the design of demanding jobs

Jaesoo Kim

Algorithmic wage setting on online labor platforms

Herbert Dawid, Philipp Harting and Michael Neugart

Gay varsity: Subject choices, grades, and early careers for UK LGB university students

Jeff Frank and Alexander Vickery

The long-run impacts of parental leave policies on the motherhood penalty: Evidence from Canada

Moyosore Sogaolu

Mismatch in the 21st century: An overview

Luca Coraggio, Monica Langella, Armando Miano, Marco Pagano, Marco S. Petterson, Vincenzo Pezone and Annalisa Scognamiglio

Volume 101, issue C, 2026

Early predictors of racial disparities in criminal justice involvement

Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger and Derek Neal

Skills to equalise the bills: How perceived skills affect the gender wage gap of higher education graduates

Nora Lorenz, Frauke Peter and Fabian Trennt

Specialists and generalists in adaptive organizations

Kohei Takahashi

Selection into short-time work and the program’s employment and windfall effects: Evidence from Germany

Christian Kagerl

Respect: Empirical labour economics and distributive justice

David Green

The effect of branching deregulation on finance wage premium

Ahmet Ali Taşkın and Fırat Yaman

Power and poverty: The distributional consequences of Walmart Supercenter openings

Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti and Rafael Pintro-Schmitt

Strategic or scarred? Disparities in college enrollment and dropout response to macroeconomic conditions

Nadim Elayan-Balagué

Short time work during the COVID-19 pandemic – Worker level evidence from administrative data

Thomas Kruppe and Max Kunaschk

Trading pay for pensions: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in the United Kingdom

Nick Deschacht, Inés Guillemyn and Sunčica Vujić

Refugee exposure and political backlash: Poland during the Russia–Ukraine war

Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Ines Homburg and Sunčica Vujić

Firm organization and worker outcomes: The role of occupational specialization

Guido Matias Cortes, Diego Dabed, Ana Oliveira and Anna Salomons

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