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2025, volume 77, articles 1

The college wage premium in the UK: decline and fall? pp. 1-18

Gianna Boero, Tej Nathwani, Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith

Welfare-maximizing patent length in a dynamic general equilibrium model pp. 19-41

Tatsuro Iwaisako

Household durable goods and child health in China pp. 42-69

Amanda Kerr

Social learning and the acquisition of information and knowledge—a network approach for the case of technology adoption pp. 70-90

Yazeed Abdul Mumin and Renan Goetz

Monopolistic competition under frictional entries pp. 91-118

Vincent Boitier

Consumer participation in the credit market during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond pp. 119-143

Evangelos Charalambakis, Federica Teppa and Athanasios Tsiortas

Degrees of demand: a task-based analysis of the British graduate labour market pp. 144-165

Golo Henseke, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie and Francis Green

The role of social effects in shaping beliefs about the economy pp. 166-189

Markus Knell and Helmut Stix

Climate change, strict Pareto improvements in welfare and multilateral financial transfers pp. 190-212

Christos Kotsogiannis and Alan Woodland

Inflation-overshooting commitment: an analysis using a macroeconomic model pp. 213-233

Takuji Kawamoto, Jouchi Nakajima and Tomoaki Mikami

Spillovers from tax shocks to the Euro area pp. 234-255

Sascha Mierzwa

Who should decide how much information to collect? pp. 256-270

Youping Li and Jianhu Zhang

Are non-practising entities opportunistic? Evidence from litigation of standard essential patents pp. 271-288

Brian J Love and Christian Helmers

2024, volume 76, articles 4

Artificial intelligence capital and employment prospects pp. 901-919

Nick Drydakis

Protests, long-term preferences, and populism: Evidence from 1968 in Europe pp. 920-944

Andrea Fazio

Automation and taxation pp. 945-969

Kerstin Hötte, Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Pantelis Koutroumpis

Intangible capital and productivity: Firm-level evidence from German manufacturing pp. 970-996

Wolfhard Kaus, Viktor Slavtchev and Markus Zimmermann

International co-movements of inflation, 1851–1913 pp. 997-1013

Stefan Gerlach and Rebecca Stuart

Exporters under foreign heat pp. 1014-1032

Clément Nedoncelle

The gender pay gap in medicine: evidence from Britain pp. 1033-1051

Melanie Jones and Ezgi Kaya

Firm-level financial frictions and aggregate allocative efficiency pp. 1052-1070

Laurent Maurin and Marcin Wolski

Structural reforms and income distribution: new evidence for OECD countries pp. 1071-1088

Rasmus Wiese, Joao Jalles and Jakob de Haan

Impact of socioeconomic determinants on the speed of epidemic diseases: a comparative analysis pp. 1089-1107

Gilles Dufrénot, Ewen Gallic, Pierre Michel, Norgile Midopkè Bonou, Ségui Gnaba and Iness Slaoui

The relationship between aggregate uncertainty and firm-level uncertainty pp. 1108-1127

Joshy Easaw and Christian Grimme

Increasing inequalities in longevity among Italian workers pp. 1128-1146

Chiara Ardito, Nicolás Zengarini, Roberto Leombruni, Giuseppe Costa and Angelo d’Errico

Structural change, labour reallocation, and productivity growth in post-reform China pp. 1147-1167

Wenliang Li

Gender pay gaps in the young adult labor force: prejudice-based discrimination or misreading of the observed-to-offered wage relationship? pp. 1168-1188

Radha Jagannathan, Michael J Camasso and Jocelyn LaFleur

Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions: evidence from the National Hockey League pp. 1189-1203

Luca Fumarco, Neil Longley, Alberto Palermo and Giambattista Rossi

Inequality of opportunity and life satisfaction pp. 1204-1225

Leonardo Becchetti, Francesco Colcerasa, Vito Peragine and Fabio Pisani

The effect of capacity constraints on the slope of the Phillips curve pp. 1226-1238

Martin Holm, Lars O Lerdalen and David Vines

Trading permits and informal entrepreneurship: evidence from South Africa pp. 1239-1264

Racky Balde

2024, volume 76, articles 3

Performance pay and work hours: US survey evidence pp. 609-627

Benjamin Artz and John Heywood

Trends in effort at work in the UK pp. 628-646

Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

Banking structural reforms and top income shares: regulate or deregulate? pp. 647-669

Carola Casti

Marital sorting, family output, and wealth inequality pp. 670-685

Emin Gahramanov, Xueli Tang, Zhenhai Yang and Shenghao Zhu

Changing gender norms and household resource allocation pp. 686-707

Jung Hyuk Lee

On the public provision of positional goods pp. 708-721

Désirée Christofzik and Sebastian Kessing

Public sector wage compression and wage inequality: gender and geographic heterogeneity pp. 722-740

Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn E Stokke

Determinants of public sector efficiency: a panel database from a stochastic frontier analysis pp. 741-758

Ablam Estel Apeti, Bao-We-Wal Bambe and Aguima Aime Bernard Lompo

Public- and private-sector jobs: a cross-country perspective pp. 759-779

Alessandra Fenizia, Daniele Checchi and Claudio Lucifora

Inflation dynamics: a traditional perspective pp. 780-796

Christopher Malikane

Exchange rates and binary political events pp. 797-822

Pedro Venturi, Alex Ferreira, Arie Gozluklu and Yujing Gong

The essentiality of money in a trading post economy with random matching pp. 823-836

Alessandro Marchesiani

Migration, technology diffusion, and growth pp. 837-858

Bright Isaac Ikhenaode and Carmelo Parello

Identifying literacy and numeracy skill mismatch in OECD countries using the job analysis method pp. 859-876

Sandra Pérez Rodríguez, Rolf Van der Velden, Tim Huijts and Babs Jacobs

Endogenous learning in international environmental agreements: the impact of research spillovers and the degree of cooperation pp. 877-900

Francisco André and Michael Finus

2024, volume 76, articles 2

How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen pp. 291-313

Sharad Tandon

Bernanke and Kindleberger on financial crises, 1978–2003 pp. 314-329

Emmanuel Carré and Laurent Le Maux

Housing, the credit market, and unconventional monetary policies: from the sovereign crisis to the great lockdown pp. 330-350

Hamed Ghiaie

Macroprudential policy implementation in a heterogeneous monetary union pp. 351-374

Margarita Rubio

Beyond human capital: how does parents’ direct influence on their sons’ earnings vary across eight OECD countries? pp. 375-394

Franco Bonomi Bezzo, Michele Raitano and Pieter Vanhuysse

Wages of UK immigrant men across generations: who catches up? pp. 395-411

Nico Ochmann

Distributional effect of import shocks on British local labour markets pp. 412-432

Anwar Adem

How does low-skilled immigration affect native wages? Evidence from Employment Permit System in Korea pp. 433-450

Michell Dong, Jongkwan Lee and Hee-Seung Yang

Uncertainty shocks and employment fluctuations in Germany: the role of establishment size pp. 451-468

Tim Kovalenko

Institutions, trade, and development: identifying the impact of country-specific characteristics on international trade pp. 469-494

Cosimo Beverelli, Alexander Keck, Mario Larch and Yoto Yotov

Work experience, information revelation, and study effort pp. 495-513

Thanos Mergoupis and Robertas Zubrickas

Unemployment insurance design with repeated choices pp. 514-532

Sumudu Kankanamge and Thomas Weitzenblum

The role of student effort on performance in PISA: revisiting the gender gap in achievement pp. 533-560

Lina M Anaya and Gema Zamarro

Non-governmental organizations’ motivation to diversify: self-interest or operation-related? Evidence from Uganda pp. 561-584

Canh Thien Dang and Trudy Owens

Government funding incentives and study program capacities in public universities: theory and evidence pp. 585-607

Jan Morten Dyrstad, Mia Marie Wallgren Sohlman and Tor Henrik Teigen

2024, volume 76, articles 1

Identity, immigration, and subjective well-being: why are natives so sharply divided on immigration issues? pp. 1-21

Peter Howley and Muhammad Waqas

Measuring trust in institutions pp. 22-40

Fredrik Carlsson, Eyoual Demeke, Peter Martinsson and Tewodros Tesemma

COVID-19 and culture pp. 41-59

Aatishya Mohanty and James Ang

Teenage conduct problems: a lifetime of disadvantage in the labour market? pp. 60-80

Sam Parsons, Alex Bryson and Alice Sullivan

Do children increase the likelihood of homeownership? Evidence from a sample with twins pp. 81-93

Seolah Kim and Hanbyul Ryu

Worker flows and wage dynamics: estimating wage growth without composition effects pp. 94-114

Raquel Carrasco, J Ignacio García-Pérez and Juan F Jimeno

Effects of bargaining legislation on worker and management reconciliation decisions—a bivariate duration analysis pp. 115-135

Sadat Reza and Paul Rilstone

Firms’ innovation and university cooperation. New evidence from a survey of Italian firms pp. 136-161

Daniela Bragoli, Flavia Cortelezzi and Massimiliano Rigon

Public investment and human capital with segmented labour markets pp. 162-186

Edward F Buffie, Christopher Adam, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Lacina Balmae, Dawit Tessema and Kangni Kpodar

Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 187-206

Eva-Maria Egger, Cecilia Poggi and Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

Optimal public debt indexation in advanced economies pp. 207-226

Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez

Collusion sustainability with a capacity-constrained firm pp. 227-249

Leonardo Madio and Aldo Pignataro

Ending civil wars through fraudulent elections pp. 250-266

M. Christian Lehmann

Identifying the economic determinants of individual voting behaviour in UK general elections pp. 267-289

Georgios Marios and María Dolores