Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue C, 2014

Dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay: A field experiment pp. 1-13

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non and Willem Verbeke

The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors pp. 14-23

Douglas Webber

Primary school availability and middle school education in rural China pp. 24-40

Li Li and Haoming Liu

Skills and the evolution of wage inequality pp. 41-57

Elena Capatina

The contribution of human capital variables to changes in the wage distribution function pp. 58-69

Pallab Kumar Ghosh

Worker flows in Germany: Inspecting the time aggregation bias pp. 70-83

Daniela Nordmeier

Cross-assignment discrimination in pay: A test case of major league baseball pp. 84-95

Őrn B. Bodvarsson, Kerry Papps and John Sessions

Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market pp. 96-109

Paolo Falco

Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries: A meta regression analysis pp. 110-130

Yoonyoung Cho and Maddalena Honorati

The great compression of the French wage structure, 1969–2008 pp. 131-144

Gregory Verdugo

Volume 27, issue C, 2014

Product market integration and wage bargaining institutions pp. 1-15

Michele Santoni

Turbulence, training and unemployment pp. 16-29

Pascal Belan and Arnaud Cheron

Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples pp. 30-43

Jan Kabátek, Arthur van Soest and Elena Stancanelli

Job polarization in aging economies pp. 44-55

Eva Moreno-Galbis and Thepthida Sopraseuth

Divorce laws and fertility pp. 56-70

Héctor Bellido and Miriam Marcén

Education and its effects on income and mortality of men aged sixty-five and over in Great Britain pp. 71-82

Richard Dorsett, Silvia Sze Wai Lui and Martin Weale

The effects of savings on reservation wages and search effort pp. 83-98

Marloes Lammers

Volume 26, issue C, 2014

The co-twin methodology and returns to schooling — testing a critical assumption pp. 1-10

Örjan Sandewall, David Cesarini and Magnus Johannesson

Cross country differences in job reallocation: The role of industry, firm size and regulations pp. 11-25

John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta and Helena Schweiger

The effect of abolishing university tuition costs: Evidence from Ireland pp. 26-33

Kevin Denny

Collective versus decentralized wage bargaining and the efficient allocation of resources pp. 34-42

Xiaoming Cai, Pieter Gautier, C. N. Teulings and Makoto Watanabe

Returns to MBA quality: Pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to peers, faculty, and institution quality pp. 43-54

Wayne Grove and Andrew Hussey

A search model with endogenous job destruction and discrimination: Why equal wage policies may not eliminate wage disparity pp. 55-71

Jonathan A. Lanning

Statistical discrimination from composition effects in the market for low-skilled workers pp. 72-80

Adrian Masters

The quality of immigrant source country educational outcomes: Do they matter in the receiving country? pp. 81-93

Qing Li and Arthur Sweetman

Flexible prices, labor market frictions and the response of employment to technology shocks pp. 94-102

Federico Mandelman and Francesco Zanetti

Volume 25, issue C, 2013

Financial incentives and study duration in higher education pp. 1-11

Trude Gunnes, Lars Kirkebøen and Marte Rønning

Employment policies, hiring practices and firm performance pp. 12-24

Sylvie Blasco and Barbara Pertold-Gębicka

Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed pp. 25-34

Helge Bennmarker, Oskar Skans and Ulrika Vikman

The effect of education on fertility: Evidence from a compulsory schooling reform pp. 35-48

Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Miriam Maeder

Causal effects on employment after first birth — A dynamic treatment approach pp. 49-62

Bernd Fitzenberger, Katrin Sommerfeld and Susanne Steffes

The economic impact of taking short parental leave: Evaluation of a French reform pp. 63-75

Olivier Joseph, Ariane Pailhé, Isabelle Recotillet and Anne Solaz

Exporting, skills and wage inequality pp. 76-85

Michael Klein, Christoph Moser and Dieter Urban

House lock and structural unemployment pp. 86-97

Robert Valletta

Labour supply effects of early retirement provision pp. 98-109

Ola Vestad

Institutional determinants of intergenerational education transmission — Comparing alternative mechanisms for natives and immigrants pp. 110-122

Philipp Bauer and Regina Riphahn

Overeducation at the start of the career: Stepping stone or trap? pp. 123-140

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx and Dieter Verhaest

The impact of potential labor supply on licensing exam difficulty pp. 141-152

Mario Pagliero

A note on parental time allocation pp. 153-157

Junichi Minagawa and Thorsten Upmann

Volume 24, issue C, 2013

Technological change and wage premiums: Historical evidence from linked employer–employee data pp. 1-11

Sanna-Mari Hynninen, Jari Ojala and Jaakko Pehkonen

Do menstrual problems explain gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings? pp. 12-22

Mariesa A. Herrmann and Jonah E. Rockoff

The effect of health on earnings: Quasi-experimental evidence from commuting accidents pp. 23-38

Martin Halla and Martina Zweimüller

Intergenerational earnings mobility: A new decomposition of investment and endowment effects pp. 39-47

Buly Cardak, David Johnston and Vance Martin

The pay gap of temporary agency workers — Does the temp sector experience pay off? pp. 48-57

Elke Jahn and Dario Pozzoli

The effectiveness of active labor market policies: Evidence from a social experiment using non-parametric bounds pp. 58-67

Johan Vikström, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

Non-cognitive skill formation in poor neighbourhoods of urban India pp. 68-85

Pramila Krishnan and Sofya Krutikova

Stature and life-time labor market outcomes: Accounting for unobserved differences pp. 86-96

Petri Böckerman and Jari Vainiomäki

A re-examination of the social returns to education: Evidence from U.S. cities pp. 97-106

Benjamin Sand

Marriage wage premium in a search equilibrium pp. 107-115

Roberto Bonilla and Francis Kiraly

Labor union bargaining and firm organizational structure pp. 116-124

Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Jung Hur and Yohanes Riyanto

Trapped at home: The effect of mothers' temporary labor market exits on their subsequent work career pp. 125-136

Nina Drange and Mari Rege

Job loss and disability insurance pp. 137-150

Bernt Bratsberg, Elisabeth Fevang and Knut Røed

New casinos and local labor markets: Evidence from Canada pp. 151-160

Brad Humphreys and Joseph Marchand

The ins and outs of unemployment in a two-tier labor market pp. 161-169

José Silva and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

Relative consumption, working time, and trade unions pp. 170-179

Laszlo Goerke and Inga Hillesheim

Trade openness, labour institutions and flexibilisation: Theory and evidence from India pp. 180-195

Bibhas Saha, Kunal Sen and Dibyendu Maiti

The elasticity of labor supply to the firm over the business cycle pp. 196-204

Briggs Depew and Todd Sorensen

A gift of time pp. 205-216

Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee and Daniel Hamermesh

Labor-market volatility in a matching model with worker heterogeneity and endogenous separations pp. 217-229

Andri Chassamboulli

The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results pp. 230-243

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers? pp. 244-252

Christoph Wunder and Guido Heineck

Parental unemployment and children's happiness: A longitudinal study of young people's well-being in unemployed households pp. 253-263

Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit

Minimum wage in a deflationary economy: The Japanese experience, 1994–2003 pp. 264-276

Ryo Kambayashi, Daiji Kawaguchi and Ken Yamada

Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard—Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 277-292

Nicolas Ziebarth

The effect of noncognitive ability on the earnings of young men: A distributional analysis with measurement error correction pp. 293-304

Ozkan Eren and Serkan Ozbeklik

Health and the double burden of full-time work and informal care provision — Evidence from administrative data pp. 305-322

Hendrik Schmitz and Magdalena Stroka

Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk? pp. 323-338

Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem and Joop Hartog

Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006 pp. 339-353

Sara Lemos

Unemployment and household values: Distribution sensitive measures of unemployment pp. 354-362

Patrick Nolen