Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 15, issue 6, 2008

Balancing family and work: The effect of cash benefits for working mothers pp. 1127-1142

Rocío Sánchez-Mangas and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

Human capital revisited: The role of experience and education when controlling for performance and cognitive skills pp. 1143-1161

Pieter Serneels

Firing costs, severance payments, judicial mistakes and unemployment pp. 1162-1178

Nikolai Stähler

Creating jobs through public subsidies: An empirical analysis pp. 1179-1199

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl and Frank Walsh

Entry regulations and labour market outcomes: Evidence from the Italian retail trade sector pp. 1200-1222

Eliana Viviano

Minimum wages and training pp. 1223-1237

Wolfgang Lechthaler and Dennis Snower

Benefit shifting: The case of sickness insurance for the unemployed pp. 1238-1269

Morten Henningsen

Disentangling Treatment Effects of Active Labor Market Policies: The Role of Labor Force Status Sequences pp. 1270-1295

Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann and Christoph Schmidt

Gender gap in wage returns to job tenure and experience pp. 1296-1316

Lalith Munasinghe, Tania Reif and Alice Henriques

Why is the payoff to schooling smaller for immigrants? pp. 1317-1340

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

Evolution of preferences and cross-country differences in time devoted to market work pp. 1341-1365

Luigi Bonatti

Age at immigration and school performance: A siblings analysis using swedish register data pp. 1366-1387

Anders Böhlmark

An efficiency wage approach to reconciling the wage curve and the Phillips curve pp. 1388-1415

Carl Campbell

Migration and the wage and unemployment gaps between urban and non-urban sectors: A dynamic general equilibrium reinterpretation of the Harris-Todaro equilibrium pp. 1416-1434

Chul-In Lee

The impact of ICT on the demand for skilled labour: A cross-country comparison pp. 1435-1450

Mary O'Mahony, Catherine Robinson and Michela Vecchi

Job search monitoring intensity, unemployment exit and job entry: Quasi-experimental evidence from the UK pp. 1451-1468

Duncan McVicar

Volume 15, issue 5, 2008

Sons, daughters, wives, and the labour market outcomes of West German men pp. 795-811

Hyung-Jai Choi, Jutta M. Joesch and Shelly Lundberg

Skill supply and biased technical change pp. 812-830

Patricia Crifo

Charity and redistributive taxation in a unionized economy pp. 831-843

Giacomo Corneo

Inferring Employer Search Behaviour from Wage Subsidy Participation pp. 844-858

Riccardo Welters and Joan Muysken

Costs and benefits of Danish active labour market programmes pp. 859-884

Svend T. Jespersen, Jakob Munch and Lars Skipper

Regional unemployment in Spain: Disparities, business cycle and wage setting pp. 885-914

Roberto Bande, Melchor Fernandez and Victor Montuenga

Gender differences in job separation rates and employment stability: New evidence from employer-employee data pp. 915-937

Anders Frederiksen

Accident risk, gender, family status and occupational choice in the UK pp. 938-957

S. Grazier and Peter Sloane

Maternal employment and adolescent development pp. 958-983

Christopher Ruhm

Fixed-term contracts as sorting mechanisms: Evidence from job durations in West Germany pp. 984-1005

Bernhard Boockmann and Tobias Hagen

Piece work pay and hourly pay over the cycle pp. 1006-1022

Robert Hart

Subsidizing Enjoyable Education pp. 1023-1039

Robert Dur and Amihai Glazer

Wages and the City. Evidence from Italy pp. 1040-1061

Sabrina Di Addario and Eleonora Patacchini

Employment effects of the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany pp. 1062-1075

Florian Hagn and Wolfgang Maennig

Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe pp. 1076-1101

Federico Biagi and Claudio Lucifora

Sign reversal in LIVE treatment effect estimates: The effect of vocational training on unemployment duration pp. 1102-1125

Yonatan Eyal and Michael Beenstock

Volume 15, issue 4, 2008

Optimal unemployment policy in a matching equilibrium pp. 537-559

Melvyn Coles

Measuring immigration's effects on labor demand: A reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift pp. 560-574

Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik F. Van den Berg and Joshua Lewer

Private school vouchers and student achievement: A fixed effects quantile regression evaluation pp. 575-590

Carlos Lamarche

Job losses and child outcomes pp. 591-603

Espen Bratberg, Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

Varying biases in matching estimates: Evidence from two randomised job search training experiments pp. 604-618

Kari Hämäläinen, Roope Uusitalo and Jukka Vuori

The external returns to education: UK evidence using repeated cross-sections pp. 619-630

Simon Kirby and Rebecca Riley

Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education pp. 631-646

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

How far can reduced childcare prices push female labour supply? pp. 647-659

Daniela Lundin, Eva Mörk and Björn Öckert

Fun with matched firm-employee data: Progress and road maps pp. 662-672

Daniel Hamermesh

Do industries matter? pp. 673-686

Mari Sako

Too many theories, too few facts? What the data tell us about the link between span of control, compensation and career dynamics pp. 687-703

Valerie Smeets and Frédéric Warzynski

Tenure and output pp. 704-723

Kathryn Shaw and Edward Lazear

Social capital in the workplace: Evidence on its formation and consequences pp. 724-748

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

The same yet different: Worker reports on labour practices and outcomes in a single firm across countries pp. 749-770

Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi

Wage differentials in the presence of unobserved worker, firm, and match heterogeneity pp. 771-793

Simon Woodcock

Volume 15, issue 3, 2008

The impact of international outsourcing on individual employment security: A micro-level analysis pp. 291-314

Ingo Geishecker

Strategic militancy and the probability of strikes in union-firm bargaining pp. 315-333

Elie Appelbaum

Holdup in oligopsonistic labour markets - a new role for the minimum wage pp. 334-349

Leo Kaas and Paul Madden

The importance of employer contacts: Evidence based on selection on observables and internal replication pp. 350-369

Per Johansson

Differential effects of active labour market programs for the unemployed pp. 370-399

Barbara Sianesi

Skill uncertainty and social inference pp. 400-405

Robert Oxoby

Does the market provide sufficient employment protection? pp. 406-422

Roberto Burguet and Ramon Caminal

Publish or peer-rich? The role of skills and networks in hiring economics professors pp. 423-441

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser

How do workers fare during transition? Perceptions of job insecurity among Russian workers, 1995-2004 pp. 442-458

Susan Linz and Anastasia Semykina

Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: A simultaneous probit approach pp. 459-481

Simon Parker

Identifying the effects of firing restrictions through size-contingent differences in regulation pp. 482-511

Fabiano Schivardi and Roberto Torrini

Contracts and on-the-job search pp. 512-536

Roberto Bonilla

Volume 15, issue 2, 2008

Relative rewards within team-based compensation pp. 141-167

Bernd Irlenbusch and Gabriele K. Ruchala

Maternity rights and mothers' return to work pp. 168-201

Simon Burgess, Paul Gregg, Carol Propper and Elizabeth Washbrook

Training hold up and social labour markets pp. 202-214

Monojit Chatterji

Do larger severance payments increase individual job duration? pp. 215-245

Pietro Garibaldi and Lia Pacelli

The labour market consequences of self-employment spells: European evidence pp. 246-271

Ari Hyytinen and Petri Rouvinen

Is training more frequent when the wage premium is smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel pp. 272-290

Andrea Bassanini and Giorgio Brunello

Volume 15, issue 1, 2008

Capital-skill complementarity, productivity and wages: Evidence from plant-level data for a developing country pp. 1-17

Mahmut Yasar and Catherine Morrison Paul

Extension of labor contracts and optimal backpay pp. 18-36

Leif Danziger

Is the gender gap in school performance affected by the sex of the teacher pp. 37-53

Helena Holmlund and Krister Sund

Does comprehensive education work for the long-term unemployed pp. 54-67

Anders Stenberg and Olle Westerlund

Is there a social security tax wedge pp. 68-77

Alessandro Cigno

Effects of employment protection on worker and job flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform pp. 78-95

Adriana Kugler and Giovanni Pica

New evidence on cross-country differences in job satisfaction using anchoring vignettes pp. 96-117

Nicolai Kristensen and Edvard Johansson

Training and economic density: Some evidence form Italian provinces pp. 118-140

Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola