Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 11, issue 6, 2004

Report of the Editor in Chief to the September 2004 Executive Committee of the European Association of Labor Economics 27 July, 2004 pp. v-vii

Andrea Ichino

Hierarchies in organisations and labour market competition pp. 669-686

Gianni De Fraja

Signaling and strategically delayed promotion pp. 687-700

Junichiro Ishida

Overeducation, wages and promotions within the firm pp. 701-714

Sandra Groeneveld and Joop Hartog

Employee participation and productivity pp. 715-740

Thomas Zwick

Performance, seniority, and wages: formal salary systems and individual earnings profiles pp. 741-763

Thomas Dohmen

Trainers' dilemma of choosing between training and promotion pp. 765-783

Kyota Eguchi

Measuring the impact of work reorganization on firm performance: evidence from French manufacturing, 1995-1999 pp. 785-798

Veronique Janod and Anne Saint-Martin

Volume 11, issue 5, 2004

Internal and external labor markets: a personnel economics approach pp. 527-554

Edward Lazear and Paul Oyer

Gender earnings gap: the role of firm specific effects pp. 555-573

Xin Meng

The labor market consequences of experience in self-employment pp. 575-598

Donald Bruce and Herbert Schuetze

Labour market signalling and job turnover revisited pp. 599-622

Dyuti Banerjee and Noel Gaston

Endogenous wage dispersion in a search-matching model pp. 623-645

Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

The impact of working-time reductions on actual hours and wages: evidence from Swedish register-data pp. 647-665

Oskar Skans

Volume 11, issue 4, 2004

The welfare cost of taxation in a labour market with unemployment and non-participation pp. 395-413

Vincent Hogan

Compulsory work-focused interviews for inactive benefit claimants: an evaluation of the British ONE pilots pp. 415-429

Simon Kirby and Rebecca Riley

How flexible are wages in EU accession countries? pp. 431-450

Anna Iara and Iulia Traistaru

Job turnover, unemployment and labor market institutions pp. 451-468

Gilles Joseph, Olivier Pierrard and Henri Sneessens

Gross job flows and institutions in Europe pp. 469-485

Ramon Gomez-Salvador, Julian Messina and Giovanna Vallanti

Evaluating the effectiveness of private education across countries: a comparison of methods pp. 487-506

Vincent Vandenberghe and Stéphane Robin

What does it take to be (counted as) unemployed? The case of Spain pp. 507-523

Luis Garrido and Luis Toharia

Volume 11, issue 3, 2004

Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover pp. 265-291

Thomas Bauer and Stefan Bender

The myth of worksharing pp. 293-313

Arie Kapteyn, Adriaan Kalwij and Asghar Zaidi

The effects of grants and wages on municipal labour demand pp. 315-334

Pal Bergstrom, Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

The relative efficiency of labor market programs: Swedish experience from the 1990s pp. 335-354

Kenneth Carling and Katarina Richardson

Does education reduce wage inequality? Quantile regression evidence from 16 countries pp. 355-371

Pedro Martins and Pedro Pereira

Revisiting the family investment hypothesis pp. 373-393

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Thomas Crossley

Volume 11, issue 2, 2004

Monopsony and the efficiency of labour market interventions pp. 145-163

Alan Manning

Ownership, firm size and rent sharing in Bulgaria pp. 165-189

Sabien Dobbelaere

A hobo syndrome? Mobility, wages, and job turnover pp. 191-218

Lalith Munasinghe and Karl Sigman

Age discrimination legislation and the employment of older workers pp. 219-241

Scott Adams

Learning from strikes pp. 243-264

Fabienne Tournadre and Marie Claire Villeval

Volume 11, issue 1, 2004

Editorial Announcement pp. vii-vii

Andrea Ichino

Employment relationships in the new economy pp. 1-31

David Neumark and Deborah Reed

International comparisons of productivity growth: the role of information technology and regulatory practices pp. 33-58

Christopher Gust and Jaime Marquez

Wage premia and skill upgrading in Italy: why didn't the hound bark? pp. 59-83

Paolo Manasse, Luca Stanca and Alessandro Turrini

Are computer skills the new basic skills? The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain pp. 85-98

Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel

The impact of office machinery, and computer capital on the demand for heterogeneous labour pp. 99-117

Martin Falk and Bertrand Koebel

Has the Internet changed the wage structure too? pp. 119-127

Sang-Hyop Lee and Jonghyuk Kim

Are intellectual property rights unfair? pp. 129-144

Gilles Saint-Paul

Volume 10, issue 6, 2003

Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring pp. 629-642

Doris Weichselbaumer

Screening discrimination and the determinants of wages pp. 643-658

Joshua Pinkston

Social exclusion and labour market transitions: a multi-state multi-spell analysis using the BHPS pp. 659-679

Steve Bradley, Robert Crouchley and Reza Oskrochi

Credit market constraints and labor market decisions pp. 681-703

Daniela Del Boca and Annamaria Lusardi

Did globalization reduce unionization? Evidence from US manufacturing pp. 705-726

Elisabetta Magnani and David Prentice

Asymmetric information about workers' productivity as a cause for inefficient long working hours pp. 727-747

Alfonso Sousa-Poza and Alexandre Ziegler

Volume 10, issue 5, 2003

The costs of hiring and separations pp. 499-530

John Abowd and Francis Kramarz

Employee referrals and efficiency wages pp. 531-556

Adriana Kugler

Designing employment subsidies pp. 557-572

J. Michael Orszag and Dennis Snower

The effect of state maternity leave legislation and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act on employment and wages pp. 573-596

Charles Baum

Collaboration and the quality of economics research pp. 597-608

Marshall H. Medoff

Structural change and the narrowing gender gap in wages: theory and evidence from Hong Kong pp. 609-626

C. Fan and Hon-Kwong Lui

Volume 10, issue 4, 2003

Why labour market experiments? pp. 399-406

Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr

Long-term work contracts versus sequential spot markets: experimental evidence on firm-specific investment pp. 407-425

Vital Anderhub, Manfred Konigstein and Dorothea Kübler

Fairness, escalation, deference, and spite: strategies used in labor-management bargaining experiments with outside options pp. 427-442

Jeffrey Carpenter and McAndrew Rudisill

An experimental study on tournament design pp. 443-464

Christine Harbring and Bernd Irlenbusch

Unity suggests strength: an experimental study of decentralized and collective bargaining pp. 465-479

Siegfried Berninghaus, Werner Guth and Claudia Keser

Task difficulty, incentive effects, and the selection of high-variance strategies: an experimental examination of tournament behavior pp. 481-497

Donald Vandegrift and Paul Brown

Volume 10, issue 3, 2003

Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition pp. 265-290

Eli Berman, Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

The class of 1981: the effects of early career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences pp. 291-309

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Hedley Rees and Arran Shearer

The return to work of injured workers: evidence from matched unemployment insurance and workers' compensation data pp. 311-337

Monica Galizzi and Leslie I. Boden

The hidden costs of fixed term contracts: the impact on work accidents pp. 339-357

Maria Guadalupe

U-type versus J-type tournaments as alternative solutions to the unverifiability problem pp. 359-380

Matthias Krakel

Temporary layoffs and the duration of unemployment pp. 381-398

Knut Røed and Morten Nordberg

Volume 10, issue 2, 2003

The real thin theory: monopsony in modern labour markets pp. 105-131

Alan Manning

The choice of paid childcare, welfare, and labor supply of single mothers pp. 133-147

Thomas Andrén

Returns to specific skills in industrial districts pp. 149-164

Federico Cingano

Literacy and earnings: an investigation of the interaction of cognitive and unobserved skills in earnings generation pp. 165-184

David Green and W. Craig Riddell

Synchronous leisure, jointness and household labor supply pp. 185-203

Daniel Hallberg

Dispersion in the economic return to schooling pp. 205-214

Colm Harmon, Vincent Hogan and Ian Walker

Fitting to the job: the role of generic and vocational competencies in adjustment and performance pp. 215-229

Hans Heijke, Christoph Meng and Catherine Ris

Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison based on a multivariate ordered probit model of educational attainment pp. 231-251

Charlotte Lauer

The political economy of collective bargaining pp. 253-264

Tapio Palokangas

Volume 10, issue 1, 2003

Explaining unemployment: some lessons from Nordic wage formation pp. 1-29

Ragnar Nymoen and Asbjorn Rodseth

Labour market institutions and the cyclical dynamics of employment pp. 31-53

Luca Nunziata

Human capital accumulation of salaried and self-employed workers pp. 55-71

Daiji Kawaguchi

Are Austrian returns to education falling over time? pp. 73-89

Josef Fersterer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

The impact of a unionised labour market in a Schumpeterian growth model pp. 91-104

Jorg Lingens