Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 49, issue C, 2017

All about balance? A test of the Jack-of-all-Trades theory using military enlistment data pp. 1-13

Lina Aldén, Mats Hammarstedt and Emma Neuman

Couples’ retirement under individual pension design: A regression discontinuity study for France pp. 14-26

Elena Stancanelli

Reconciling the divergence in aggregate U.S. wage series pp. 27-41

Julien Champagne, André Kurmann and Jay Stewart

Dynamic treatment assignment and evaluation of active labor market policies pp. 42-54

Johan Vikström

Earnings responses to social security contributions pp. 55-73

Michael Neumann

Monitoring and disincentives in containing paid sick leave pp. 74-83

D’Amuri, Francesco

The college earnings premium and changes in college enrollment: Testing models of expectation formation pp. 84-94

Eleanor Dillon

The dynamics of solo self-employment: Persistence and transition to employership pp. 95-105

Daniel S.J. Lechmann and Christoph Wunder

Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: Employment and wage differentials by skill pp. 106-127

Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Jake Bradley and Linas Tarasonis

Effects of maternal work incentives on youth crime pp. 128-144

Hope Corman, Dhaval Dave, Ariel Kalil and Nancy E. Reichman

Women make houses, women make homes pp. 145-161

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel

Collaboration and free-riding in team contests pp. 162-178

Muruvvet Buyukboyaci and Andrea Robbett

Volume 48, issue C, 2017

Cyclicality of wages and union power pp. 1-22

Annaïg Morin

Partial disability and labor market adjustment: The case of Spain pp. 23-34

José Silva and Judit Vall-Castelló

Firm dynamics and employment protection: Evidence from sectoral data pp. 35-53

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti and Giovanni Sulis

Productivity effects of air pollution: Evidence from professional soccer pp. 54-66

Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel and Eric Sommer

The extent and nature of downward nominal wage flexibility: An analysis of longitudinal worker/establishment data from Korea pp. 67-86

Seonyoung Park and Donggyun Shin

Returning to returns: Revisiting the British education evidence pp. 87-104

Peter Dolton and Matteo Sandi

Are starting wages reduced by an insurance premium for preventing wage decline? Testing the prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982) pp. 105-119

Joop Hartog and Pedro Raposo

The persistence of overeducation among recent graduates pp. 120-143

Elena Meroni and Esperanza Vera-Toscano

Can welfare conditionality combat high school dropout? pp. 144-156

Øystein Hernæs, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Home-ownership and the Labour Market: Evidence from Rental Housing Market Deregulation pp. 157-167

Jani-Petri Laamanen

Trends in earnings inequality and earnings instability among U.S. couples: How important is assortative matching? pp. 168-182

Dmytro Hryshko, Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue

Competitive versus random search with bargaining: An empirical comparison pp. 183-197

Bryan Engelhardt and Peter Rupert

Routine-biased technical change: Panel evidence of task orientation and wage effects pp. 198-214

Matthew Ross

College admissions decisions, educational outcomes, and family formation pp. 215-230

Maria Humlum, Jannie Kristoffersen and Rune Vejlin

Volume 47, issue C, 2017

The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement. Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations pp. 1-14

Björn Tyrefors and Jonas Vlachos

Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance pp. 15-34

Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger and Jan Marcus

How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction pp. 35-47

Sarah C. Dahmann

Behavioral barriers transitioning to college pp. 48-63

Robert French and Philip Oreopoulos

Do you dare? The effect of economic conditions on entrepreneurship among college graduates pp. 64-74

Hendrik Beiler

Microfinance beyond self-employment: Evidence for firms in Bulgaria pp. 75-95

Eva Erhardt

Working hours and productivity pp. 96-106

Marion Collewet and Jan Sauermann

Top earnings inequality and the gender pay gap: Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom pp. 107-123

Nicole M. Fortin, Brian Bell and Michael Böhm

Children and the gender gap in management pp. 124-137

Inés Hardoy, Pål Schøne and Kjersti Misje Østbakken

Information, financial aid and training participation: Evidence from a randomized field experiment pp. 138-148

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

Minimum wage effects on firm-provided and worker-initiated training pp. 149-162

Hiromi Hara

The effects of minimum wages on firm-financed apprenticeship training pp. 163-181

Mathias Schumann

The impact of participation in job creation schemes in turbulent times pp. 182-201

Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan and Arne Uhlendorff

Making disability work? The effects of financial incentives on partially disabled workers pp. 202-215

Pierre Koning and Jan-Maarten Van Sonsbeek

Pension incentives and early retirement pp. 216-231

Barbara Engels, Johannes Geyer and Peter Haan

Volume 46, issue C, 2017

The labor supply of undocumented immigrants pp. 1-13

George Borjas

Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies pp. 14-25

Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt and Oscar Mitnik

Dual labor markets and labor protection in an estimated search and matching model pp. 26-46

Mauricio Tejada

High wage workers and high wage peers pp. 47-63

Michele Battisti

The impact of employment protection on temporary employment: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design pp. 64-76

Alexander Hijzen, Leopoldo Mondauto and Stefano Scarpetta

Employment protection and the market for innovations pp. 77-93

A. Bastgen and Christian Holzner

‘Hate at First Sight’: Evidence of consumer discrimination against African-Americans in the US pp. 94-109

Morgane Laouenan

Productivity dynamics, performance feedback and group incentives in a sales organization pp. 110-117

Arild Aakvik, Frank Hansen and Gaute Torsvik

Learning about match quality: Information flows and labor market outcomes pp. 118-130

Gonul Sengul

Household labour supply and the marriage market in the UK, 1991-2008 pp. 131-149

Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet and Jean-Marc Robin

Mental health and productivity at work: Does what you do matter? pp. 150-165

Melisa Bubonya, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mark Wooden

The recent decline of single quarter jobs pp. 166-176

Henry Hyatt and James Spletzer

How does pension eligibility affect labor supply in couples? pp. 177-188

Rafael Lalive and Pierpaolo Parrotta

Technological innovations in monitoring and evaluation: Evidence of performance impacts among Major League Baseball umpires pp. 189-199

Brian Mills

Born to run behind? Persisting birth month effects on earnings pp. 200-210

Erling Røed Larsen and Ingeborg F. Solli

The downside of good peers: How classroom composition differentially affects men's and women's STEM persistence pp. 211-226

Stefanie Fischer