Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. Ichino

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Volume 95, issue C, 2025

The value of school choice opportunities

Lukas Hörnig and Max Schäfer

Earnings expectations of “First-in Family” university students and their role for major choice

Katharina Adler, Fabian Kosse, Markus Nagler and Johannes Rincke

This time it’s different – Generative artificial intelligence and occupational choice

Daniel Goller, Christian Gschwendt and Stefan Wolter

Job search under changing labour taxes

Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen

Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women

Tom Günther, Jakob Conradi and Clemens Hetschko

Performance pay for private program providers and impact on participants: A field experiment with employment services in Norway

Øystein Hernæs

Human after all: Occupations at the core of AI adoption

Luca Fontanelli, Flavio Calvino, Chiara Criscuolo, Lionel Nesta and Elena Verdolini

The composition of applicants, mismatch, and matching efficiency in the German VET market

Bernd Fitzenberger, Anna Heusler, Anna Houštecká and Leonie Wicht

What determines the gender pay gap in academia?

Jaan Masso, Jaanika Meriküll, Liis Roosaar, Kärt Rõigas and Tiiu Paas

Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?

Laurenz Baertsch and Malte Sandner

Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?

Lennart Ziegler and Omar Bamieh

Effects of team diversity on individual performance and voice: A field experiment of group composition by gender and language

Valentina Contreras, Chiara Orsini, Berkay Özcan and Johann Koehler

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 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 Mendez, 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 Mora-García, Mounu Prem, Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes and Juan 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 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