Labour Economics

1993 - 2025

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Volume 84, issue C, 2023

Turning back the clock: Beliefs about gender roles during lockdown

Anne Boring and Gloria Moroni

Mothers at work: How mandating a short maternity leave affects work and fertility

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Lena Hassani-Nezhad, Kalaivani Karunanethy and Rafael Lalive

The learning gain over one school year among 15-year-olds: An international comparison based on PISA

Francesco Avvisati and Pauline Givord

Access to language training and the local integration of refugees

Mette Foged and Cynthia van der Werf

Best and brightest? The impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US

Mingyu Chen, Jessica Howell and Jonathan Smith

Trade Unions and the Process of Technological Change

Fredrik B. Kostøl and Elin Svarstad

Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK

Colin Green and John Heywood

Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts

Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Fabien Petit and Tanguy van Ypersele

Specialists or generalists? Cross-industry mobility and wages

Justine Hervé

Month-of-birth effects on skills and skill formation

Shintaro Yamaguchi, Hirotake Ito and Makiko Nakamuro

The economic value of language in China: How important is Mandarin proficiency in the Chinese labor market? A bounding approach

Chen Xu and Xiao Liu

Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market

Michael Rose and Suraj Shekhar

Does social assistance disincentivise employment, job formality, and mobility?

Dyah Pritadrajati

The effect of preserving job matches during a crisis

Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte and Daniela Scur

Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea—Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy

Darrell J. Glaser and Ahmed S. Rahman

Salary history bans and healing scars from past recessions

Joshua Mask

Presence of language-learning opportunities and migration

Matthias Huber and Silke Uebelmesser

Education-oriented and care-oriented preschools: Implications on child development

Hideo Akabayashi, Tim Ruberg, Chizuru Shikishima and Jun Yamashita

Make your own luck: The wage gains from starting college in a bad economy

Alena Bičáková, Guido Matias Cortes and Jacopo Mazza

What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?

Anthony Strittmatter

Understanding the racial employment gap: The role of sectoral shifts

Div Bhagia and Carter Bryson

Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from a pension reform

Elisabeth Fürstenau, Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan and Felix Weinhardt

Are shorter cumulative temporary contracts worse stepping stones? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Jan Kabátek, Ying Liang and Kun Zheng

Tackling misperceptions about immigrants with fact-checking interventions: A randomized survey experiment

Syngjoo Choi, Chung-Yoon Choi and Seonghoon Kim

Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment

Davey Poulissen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge and Annemarie Künn-Nelen

Volume 83, issue C, 2023

Occupational safety in a frictional labor market

Martin Kerndler

Gender-targeted transfers by default? - Evidence from a child allowance reform in Sweden

Erica Lindahl, Olof Rosenqvist and Håkan Selin

Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Ria Ivandić and Anne Sophie Lassen

Gender-age differences in hiring rates and prospective wages—Evidence from job referrals to unemployed workers

Omar Bamieh and Lennart Ziegler

Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap

Teresa Backhaus, Clara Schäper and Annekatrin Schrenker

Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery

Gaetano Basso, Domenico Depalo and Salvatore Lattanzio

The impact of absent co-workers on productivity in teams

Sam Hoey, Thomas Peeters and Jan C. van Ours

The promise (and peril) in approaching gender parity: Preregistered survey experiments addressing gender inequality in negotiations

Emelie Fröberg, Jenny Säve-Söderbergh, Richard Wahlund and S. Wiley Wakeman

The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-19

Davide Fiaschi and Cristina Tealdi

Granting more bang for the buck: The heterogeneous effects of firm subsidies

Federico Cingano, Filippo Palomba, Paolo Pinotti and Enrico Rettore

The effects of Covid-19 on couples’ job tenures: Mothers have it worse

Cristina Lafuente, Astrid Ruland, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis and Ludo Visschers

Preference-choice mismatch and university dropout

Didier Fouarge and Pascal Heß

Volume 82, issue C, 2023

National identity and the integration of second-generation immigrants

Ole Monscheuer

Labour Market Shocks and Parental Investments during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Claudia Hupkau, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Ingo E. Isphording and Stephen Machin

Effects of stay-at-home orders on skill requirements in vacancy postings

Ran Gu and Ling Zhong

Citizenship and integration

Christina Gathmann and Julio Garbers

Racial inequality in frictional labor markets: Evidence from minimum wages

Jesse Wursten and Michael Reich

Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions

Andri Chassamboulli and Pedro Gomes

From epidemic to pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on high school program choices in Sweden

Aino-Maija Aalto, Dagmar Müller and J. Lucas Tilley

Ageing and labor productivity

Erik Hernæs, Tom Kornstad, Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Education expansion and high-skill job opportunities for workers: Does a rising tide lift all boats?

Tobias Schultheiss, Curdin Pfister, Ann-Sophie Gnehm and Uschi Backes-Gellner

Is the rise in high school graduation rates real? High-stakes school accountability and strategic behavior

Douglas Harris, Lihan Liu, Nathan Barrett and Ruoxi Li

Effects of prescription opioids on employment, earnings, marriage, disability and mortality: Evidence from state opioid control policies

Robert Kaestner and Engy Ziedan

Marriage patterns and the gender gap in labor force participation: Evidence from Italy

Giovanni Righetto

Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences

Helena Holmlund, Erica Lindahl and Sara Roman

Cultural differences and immigrants’ wages

Morgan Raux

Oil & gas induced economic fluctuations and self-employment

Bulent Unel and Gregory Upton