Labour Economics

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Volume 36, issue C, 2015

Optimal unemployment insurance: When search takes effort and money pp. 1-17

Jeremy Schwartz

Immigrants, domestic labor and women's retirement decisions pp. 18-34

Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti and Mariacristina Rossi

Class-size reduction policies and the quality of entering teachers pp. 35-47

Steven Dieterle

A tradable employment quota pp. 48-63

Metin Akyol, Michael Neugart and Stefan Pichler

Parental leave reforms and the employment of new mothers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japan pp. 72-83

Yukiko Asai

The effects of family policy on maternal labor supply: Combining evidence from a structural model and a quasi-experimental approach pp. 84-98

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich

Does the cost of child care affect female labor market participation? An evaluation of a French reform of childcare subsidies pp. 99-111

Pauline Givord and Claire Marbot

Childcare subsidies and labour supply — Evidence from a large Dutch reform pp. 112-123

Leon J.H. Bettendorf, Egbert L.W. Jongen and Paul Muller

Full-time universal childcare in a context of low maternal employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Spain pp. 124-136

Natalia Nollenberger and Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Canadian evidence on ten years of universal preschool policies: The good and the bad pp. 137-157

Catherine Haeck, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan

Volume 35, issue C, 2015

Labor market effects of sports and exercise: Evidence from Canadian panel data pp. 1-15

Michael Lechner and Nazmi Sari

An experimental study of sorting in group contests pp. 16-25

Philip Brookins, John Lightle and Dmitry Ryvkin

The long term returns of attempting self-employment with regular employment as a fall back option pp. 26-52

Moira Daly

Guest workers in the underground economy pp. 53-62

Slobodan Djajić and Alice Mesnard

Immigrant concentration in schools: Consequences for native and migrant students pp. 63-76

Nicole Schneeweis

Time preferences and career investments pp. 77-92

Thomas van Huizen and Rob Alessie

Optimal labor market policy with search frictions and risk-averse workers pp. 93-107

Jean-Baptiste Michau

Spillover effects of unionisation on non-members' wellbeing pp. 108-122

Getinet Haile, Alex Bryson and Michael White

Firm market power and the earnings distribution pp. 123-134

Douglas Webber

Childhood and family experiences and the social integration of young migrants pp. 135-144

Olof Åslund, Anders Böhlmark and Oskar Skans

The effect of product market competition on job security pp. 145-159

Ainoa Aparicio

Volume 34, issue C, 2015

The Great Recession was not so great pp. 1-12

Jan C. van Ours

Blissful ignorance? A natural experiment on the effect of feedback on students' performance pp. 13-25

Oriana Bandiera, Valentino Larcinese and Imran Rasul

Promoting integration of immigrants: Effects of free child care on child enrollment and parental employment pp. 26-38

Nina Drange and Kjetil Telle

The earnings returns to graduating with honors — Evidence from law graduates pp. 39-50

Ronny Freier, Mathias Schumann and Thomas Siedler

Is there a taste for racial discrimination amongst employers? pp. 51-63

Alex Bryson and Arnaud Chevalier

Educational spillovers and parental migration pp. 64-75

Joanna Clifton-Sprigg

Language skills and labor market performance of immigrants in the Netherlands pp. 76-85

Yuxin Yao and Jan C. van Ours

Who gets to cross the border? The impact of mobility restrictions on labor flows in the West Bank pp. 86-99

Wifag Adnan

Can the Dutch meet their own retirement expenditure goals? pp. 100-117

Jochem de Bresser and Marike Knoef

Gender pay gaps among highly educated professionals — Compensation components do matter pp. 118-126

Christian Grund

How long and how much? Learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy changes and discontinuities pp. 127-137

Anna Sjögren and Johan Vikström

Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship pp. 138-151

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer and Hanna Zwiener

Making work pay for the indebted? Assessing the effects of debt services on welfare recipients pp. 152-161

Pierre Koning

Volume 33, issue C, 2015

Mental health and education decisions pp. 1-12

Francesca Cornaglia, Elena Crivellaro and Sandra McNally

Trade union membership and sickness absence: Evidence from a sick pay reform pp. 13-25

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

Working while studying? Student aid design and socioeconomic achievement disparities in higher education pp. 26-40

Daniel Avdic and Marie Gartell

Sickness insurance and spousal labour supply pp. 41-54

Martin Olsson and Peter Skogman Thoursie

Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools pp. 55-65

Hong Son Nghiem, Ha Nguyen, Rasheda Khanam and Luke Connelly

The black–white wage gap among young women in 1990 vs. 2011: The role of selection and educational attainment pp. 66-71

James Albrecht, Aico van Vuuren and Susan Vroman

Married with children: What remains when observable biases are removed from the reported male marriage wage premium pp. 72-80

Megan de Linde Leonard and T. Stanley

Wage dynamics in the presence of unobserved individual and job heterogeneity pp. 81-93

Laura Hospido

Constrained firms, not subsistence activities: Evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises pp. 94-110

Marina Dodlova, Kristin Göbel, Michael Grimm and Jann Lay

Worried sick? Worker responses to a financial shock pp. 111-120

Espen Bratberg and Karin Monstad

Volume 32, issue C, 2015

The supply and demand of motivated labor: When should we expect to see nonprofit wage gaps? pp. 1-14

Daniel Jones

Physical appearance and earnings, hair color matters pp. 15-26

Evgenia Dechter

Social contacts and referrals in a labor market with on-the-job search pp. 27-43

Anna Zaharieva

Money v.s. prestige: Cultural attitudes and occupational choices pp. 44-56

Crystal Zhan

Does employer learning vary by schooling attainment? The answer depends on how career start dates are defined pp. 57-66

Audrey Light and Andrew McGee

Do interventions targeted at micro-entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized firms create jobs? A systematic review of the evidence for low and middle income countries pp. 67-85

Michael Grimm and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

The returns to occupational foreign language use: Evidence from Germany pp. 86-98

Tobias Stöhr

Cohort size and youth earnings: Evidence from a quasi-experiment pp. 99-111

Louis-Philippe Morin

Job assignment with multivariate skills and the Peter Principle pp. 112-121

Stefanie Brilon