Journal of Labor Economics

1983 - 2025

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Volume 43, issue S1, 2025

Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Robert A. Moffitt pp. S1 - S6

Michael Keane and James Ziliak

Earnings, Marriage, and the Variance of Family Income by Age, Gender, and Cohort pp. S7 - S54

Joseph G. Altonji, Daniel Giraldo-Páez, Disa Hynsjo and Ivan Vidangos

Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Life Cycle Earnings Volatility pp. S55 - S82

Richard Blundell, Christopher R. Bollinger, Charles Hokayem and James Ziliak

Workers’ Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk pp. S83 - S121

Gizem Kosar and Wilbert van der Klaauw

Family Income Dynamics 1970–2018: Putting the Pieces Together pp. S123 - S151

Ji-Liang Shiu, Sisi Zhang and Peter Gottschalk

The Association between the Volatility of Income and Life Expectancy in the United States pp. S153 - S178

Anna L. Ziff, Emily Wiemers and V. Joseph Hotz

Robust Inference for the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity pp. S179 - S219

Michael Keane and Timothy Neal

Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach pp. S221 - S267

Weilong Zhang and Petra E. Todd

The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility pp. S269 - S301

Sadegh Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman and Rasmus Landersø

A Generalized Model of Misclassification Errors and Labor Force Dynamics pp. S303 - S332

Shuaizhang Feng, Yingyao Hu and Jiandong Sun

Inference with Imputed Data: The Allure of Making Stuff Up pp. S333 - S350

Charles F. Manski

Family Law Effects on Divorce, Fertility, and Child Investment pp. S351 - S397

Meta Brown, Christopher Flinn and Joseph Mullins

Changing Families: Family Relationships, Parental Decisions, and Child Development pp. S399 - S444

Marc Chan and Kai Liu

Volume 43, issue 3, 2025

Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills pp. 665 - 694

Femke Cnossen, Matloob Piracha and Guy Tchuente

Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns pp. 695 - 723

Michael J. Böhm, Khalil Esmkhani and Giovanni Gallipoli

Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Evangelical Church in Chile pp. 725 - 762

Andrés Barrios-Fernández and Jorge García-Hombrados

Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants pp. 763 - 802

Ferran Elias, Joan Monras and Javier Vázquez-Grenno

Health of Parents, Their Children’s Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers pp. 803 - 841

Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold and Julia Schmieder

Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the United States pp. 843 - 883

Toman Barsbai, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Winter

The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda pp. 885 - 935

Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali

Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity pp. 937 - 983

Morris M. Kleiner and Ming Xu

Volume 43, issue 2, 2025

Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment pp. 293 - 318

Jacob Arendt, Christian Dustmann and Hyejin Ku

Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover pp. 319 - 348

Omar Bamieh, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico

Long-Term Consequences of Teaching Gender Roles: Evidence from Desegregating Industrial Arts and Home Economics in Japan pp. 349 - 389

Hiromi Hara and Núria Rodríguez-Planas

The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University pp. 391 - 431

Cecilia Machado, Germán Reyes and Evan Riehl

The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador pp. 433 - 466

Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Francesca Salvati and Norbert Schady

Dynamic Effort Choice in High School: Costs and Benefits of an Academic Track pp. 467 - 502

Olivier De Groote

Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities pp. 503 - 543

Melanie Arntz, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

Matching across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage pp. 545 - 584

So Yoon Ahn

In-Kind Housing Transfers and Labor Supply: A Structural Approach pp. 585 - 633

Ning Zhang

How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution? pp. 635 - 663

Kevin Lang

Volume 43, issue 1, 2025

Effects of Confidential Access to Oral Contraception in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings pp. 1 - 13

Randy Cragun

Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival pp. 15 - 46

Stacey H. Chen, Jennjou Chen, Hongwei Chuang and Tzu-Hsin Lin

Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms pp. 47 - 81

Maria Cheung, Johan Egebark, Anders Forslund, Lisa Laun, Magnus Rödin and Johan Vikström

Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas pp. 83 - 119

Wei Cheng and Bruce Weinberg

Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency pp. 121 - 159

Michael Waldman and Zhenda Yin

Social Transfers and Spatial Distortions pp. 161 - 201

Mark Colas and Robert McDonough

The Impact of the Retirement Slowdown on the US Youth Labor Market pp. 203 - 246

Paul Mohnen

The Intergenerational Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Risky Behaviors pp. 247 - 292

Monica Deza and Alvaro Mezza

Volume 42, issue S1, 2024

Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of David Card pp. S1 - S9

Janet Currie and Thomas Lemieux

Industry Wage Differentials: A Firm-Based Approach pp. S11 - S59

David Card, Jesse Rothstein and Moises Yi

Household Mobility, Networks, and Gentrification of Minority Neighborhoods in the United States pp. S61 - S94

Fernando Ferreira, Jeanna Kenney and Benjamin Smith

Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South pp. S95 - S131

Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan G. Lewis

Skill, Productivity, and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency pp. S133 - S181

Xinwei Dong, Dean Hyslop and Daiji Kawaguchi

Caregiving and Labor Supply: New Evidence from Administrative Data pp. S183 - S218

Nicole Maestas, Matt Messel and Yulya Truskinovsky

Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States: Trends, Correlates, and Other Interesting Facts pp. S219 - S259

Sarah Robinson, Heather Royer and David Silver

The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program pp. S261 - S292

Brian A. Jacob, Damon Jones and Benjamin J. Keys

The Employment and Distributional Impacts of Nationwide Minimum Wage Changes pp. S293 - S333

Giulia Giupponi, Robert Joyce, Attila Lindner, Tom Waters, Thomas Wernham and Xiaowei Xu

Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees pp. S335 - S377

Mette Foged, Linea Hasager and Giovanni Peri

Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002 to 2020: Evidence from California UI Records pp. S379 - S416

Alex Bell, T. J. Hedin, Geoffrey Schnorr and Till von Wachter

The Expanding Landscape of Online Education: Who Engages and How They Fare pp. S417 - S443

Lisa Barrow, Wesley T. Morris and Lauren Sartain

Volume 42, issue 4, 2024

The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks pp. 921 - 948

Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler and Simeon Schudy

Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants pp. 949 - 977

Francesco Amodio and Nicolás de Roux

The Geography of Job Tasks pp. 979 - 1008

Enghin Atalay, Sebastian Sotelo and Daniel Tannenbaum

Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia pp. 1009 - 1047

Evan Riehl

Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru pp. 1049 - 1091

Nicolás Ajzenman, Eleonora Bertoni, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta and Carolina Méndez Vargas

The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap pp. 1093 - 1133

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko and Matthew Comey

Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers? pp. 1135 - 1174

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Serena Canaan, Nikolaj A. Harmon and Heather N. Royer

Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs pp. 1175 - 1217

Jonas Fluchtmann, Anita M. Glenny, Nikolaj Harmon and Jonas Maibom

Volume 42, issue 3, 2024

The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt pp. 635 - 657

Marc Chan, Nicolas Hérault, Ha Vu and Roger Wilkins

Grades and Employer Learning pp. 659 - 682

Anne Toft Hansen, Ulrik Hvidman and Hans Henrik Sievertsen

The Decline in Rent Sharing pp. 683 - 716

Brian Bell, Paweł Bukowski and Stephen Machin

Who Benefits from Attending Effective High Schools? pp. 717 - 751

C. Kirabo Jackson, Sebastián Kiguel, Shanette C. Porter and John Q. Easton

School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development pp. 753 - 792

Erich Battistin and Lorenzo Neri

The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand pp. 793 - 835

Matthew Gudgeon and Simon Trenkle

Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks pp. 837 - 875

Moises Yi, Steffen Mueller and Jens Stegmaier

Cohort Size and the Marriage Market: Explaining Nearly a Century of Changes in US Marriage Rates pp. 877 - 920

Mary Ann Bronson and Maurizio Mazzocco

Volume 42, issue 2, 2024

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women’s Human Capital: Some Projections pp. 289 - 323

Mark Drozd, Robert A. Moffitt and Xinyu Zhao

What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data pp. 325 - 355

Alessandra Casarico and Salvatore Lattanzio

The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom pp. 357 - 394

Ludovica Gazze, Claudia Persico and Sandra Spirovska

Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women pp. 395 - 426

Corinne Low

Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments pp. 427 - 467

Chris Riddell and W. Craig Riddell

Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D pp. 469 - 509

Tania Babina and Sabrina T. Howell

Labor Supply within the Firm pp. 511 - 548

Michele Battisti, Ryan Michaels and Choonsung Park

Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size pp. 549 - 589

Jaime Arellano-Bover

Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–2017 pp. 591 - 634

Daisuke Adachi, Daiji Kawaguchi and Yukiko Saito

Volume 42, issue 1, 2024

The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations pp. 1 - 23

Nayoung Rim, Roman Rivera, Andrea Kiss and Bocar Ba

Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions pp. 25 - 51

Maxim Massenkoff and Nathan Wilmers

What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences? pp. 53 - 83

James Thomas

Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting pp. 85 - 119

Benjamin Lochner and Bastian Schulz

The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle pp. 121 - 160

Kjell G Salvanes, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén

The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China pp. 161 - 200

Lei An, Yu Qin, Jing Wu and Wei You

Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality pp. 201 - 243

Michael J. Böhm, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker and Felix Schran

The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major pp. 245 - 288

Ran Abramitzky, Victor Lavy and Maayan Segev