Journal for Labour Market Research

2012 - 2026

Continuation of Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research.

Current editor(s): Joachim Möller et al.

From Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]
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2026, volume 60

Administrative data on German short-time work: essentials and potentials

Christian Kagerl

Gender gaps in career opportunities: a look at graduates in the field of business and economics in Uruguay

Paola Azar and Alina Machado

The professional-training-gap for adolescents in welfare dependent households

Julia Holleitner, Bernd Fitzenberger and Julia Holleitner

2025, volume 59

Earnings attainment in the three main cities of Southeastern Brazil: social networks and communities of worship

Silvio Segundo Salej Higgins, Jorge Alexandre Barbosa Neves and Luciano Mattar

Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? Causal evidence from East Germany after reunification

Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper and Stephan Thomsen

Testing for wage-specific search intensity

Silvio Rendon

Inequality of earnings and housing costs – developments between and within regions

Philipp Breidenbach and Sandra Schaffner

Reconceptualising labour utilisation and underutilisation with new ‘full-time equivalent’ employment and unemployment rates

Donald Houston and Colin Lindsay

Does organizational context matter? An examination of the factors influencing employees’ judgments of minimum wage increases

Matthias Dütsch, Monika Senghaas, Gesine Stephan and Olaf Struck

Unions and employers' associations in Germany: a survey of their membership, density and bargaining coverage

Claus Schnabel

A study of job polarization in Sweden from an urban-rural perspective

Martin Nordin, Cecilia Hammarlund and Andreas Bergh

The employment statistics of severely disabled people: description and research potential

Karolin Hiesinger, Laura Pohlan and Franka Vetter

Continuous vocational education and training and new technologies: on the importance of educational level and technology in the workplace

Andreas Stöckl and Olaf Struck

Disabling misperceptions? How employees (D)evaluate the labor force participation of people with disabilities

Julian Jäger, Elisabeth Sattler-Bublitz and Miriam Beblo

Skilled labour immigration: a vignette analysis on the willingness to accept migrants from outside the EU

Richard V. Wolff, Olaf Struck and Christopher Osiander

The impact of the outsourcing ban in Mexico on labor market outcomes. An analysis using worker level data

Fernando Moreno-Contreras and Edwin van Gameren

The effects of foreign acquisitions on wages: how the country of origin matters

Liis Roosaar, Jaan Masso and Rasmus Bøgh Holmen

Analysing gender pay disparities and structural barriers among software developers: a cross-country study

Arjun Prakash and Inder Sekhar Yadav

Towards explicit soft skills labelling in ESCO through semantic NLP analysis

Ciprian Panzaru and Anamaria Grama

Imputation strategies for rightcensored wages in longitudinal datasets

Jörg Drechsler and Johannes Ludsteck

Artificial intelligence and autonomy at work: empirical insights from Germany

Oliver Giering and Stefan Kirchner

The poverty risk of East and South-East Asian migrant households in Germany: The role of human capital, employment, and intermarriage

Tobias Wolbring, Eva Köhler and Eric Fong

Does migrant workers benefit from digital finance? Evidence from China

Min Zhang

The association between gender, tied migration and intermarriage, and the labor market performance of married African immigrants in the United States

Ene Ikpebe and Michael C. Seeborg

Impact of women’s reproductive health and empowerment on female labour force participation

Surbhi Mishra and Dukhabandhu Sahoo

Educated workers do not experience shorter unemployment spells: evidence from a literature review

Rubén Castro Landsman, Juan Tapia Gertosio and Diego Mejías González

From rules to forests: rule-based versus statistical models for jobseeker profiling

Álvaro F. Junquera and Christoph Kern

How has the partner influenced the spouse’s employment situation in Spain before and during Covid-19?

José Enrique Rodríguez Hernández

Drivers behind the diverging gender patterns of wage inequality

Xisco Oliver and Maria Sard

The impact of work arrangements on the choice to work from home: a discrete-continuous choice experiment

Gerrit von Jorck, Tobias Börger, Linda Ghirardello, Jürgen Meyerhoff and Barbara Praetorius

Occupational exposures, complementarity and the potential consequences of A.I. for the labour market: some evidence from Ireland

Harry Williamson, Dermot Coates, Kevin Daly, Keith FitzGerald and Neil Gannon

A meta-regression analysis of the hukou-based wage gap in China

Yiru Liu and Zhen Xu

Polarised upgrading: the changing occupational structure of large cities in Germany and the UK, 1991–2021

Daniel Oesch, Katy Morris and Gina-Julia Westenberger

2024, volume 58

Going green: estimating the potential of green jobs in Argentina

Pablo de la Vega, Natalia Porto and Manuela Cerimelo

Live longer, work longer? An investigation of the health capacity to work at older ages in Denmark using combined register and survey data

Maiken Skovrider Aaskoven, Jørgen T. Lauridsen and Trine Kjær

Union membership and the wage gap between the public and private sectors: evidence from China

Xinxin Ma

Personnel adjustments during the Covid-19 pandemic: did co-determination make a difference?

Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel and Jens Stegmaier

Labor market regulation and the cyclicality of involuntary part-time work

Theresa Markefke and Rebekka Müller-Rehm

Intergenerational transmission of unemployment after apprenticeship graduation: does parental socioeconomic background still matter?

Sandra Dummert

Short-time work, labor hoarding, and curtailed hiring: establishment-level evidence from Japan

Chiu-Wei Kuo

Measurement error in longitudinal earnings data: evidence from Germany

Achim Schmillen, Matthias Umkehrer and Till von Wachter

The impact of global value chains on wages, employment, and productivity: a survey of theoretical approaches

Sabina Szymczak

Academic or vocational education? A comparison of the long-term wage development of academic and vocational tertiary degree holders

Irene Kriesi and Fabian Sander

Test-based measurement of skill mismatch: a validation of five different measurement approaches using the NEPS

Stephan Bischof

Unemployment's long shadow: the persistent impact on social exclusion

Laura Pohlan

Income and consumption inequality trends: a comparative analysis between paid employees and the self-employed

Sadaf Sadaf

Continuing vocational training in times of economic uncertainty: an event-study analysis in real time

Christine Dauth and Julia Lang

Minijobs as stepping stones to regular employment: overall trends and the role of Midijob reforms

Matthias Collischon, Anna Herget and Regina T. Riphahn

Supporting the right workplace experience: a dynamic evaluation of three activation programmes for young job seekers in Slovakia

Miroslav Štefánik and Lukáš Lafférs

The response of labour demand to different COVID-19 containment measures: evidence from online job postings in Austria

Sandra M. Leitner and Oliver Reiter

The COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to higher education? Evidence from a large university in Northern Italy

Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer and Carolina Castagnetti

Literature review of comparative school-to-work research: how institutional settings shape individual labour market outcomes

Anna Marczuk

You'll never seek alone: The impact of active labour market policies on finding a job

José María Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano

Does the effect of employment protection depend on the composition of unemployment?

Andreas Bastgen

Non-take-up of in-work benefits: determinants, benefit erosion and indexing

Diego Muñoz-Higueras, Stephan Köppe, Rafael Granell and Amadeo Fuenmayor

The COVID-19 pandemic and firms' E-learning use: implications for inequality in training opportunities

Christoph Müller

The effect of labour tightness on wages at the regional level in Central Europe

Lajos Tamás Szabó

Task content of jobs and mothers’ employment transitions in Germany

Honorata Bogusz

The gender gap in the wage sensitivity of job transitions: a decomposition analysis

Céline Detilleux and Nick Deschacht

Accounting for qualification in mismatch unemployment

Anja Bauer