Journal of Labor Economics

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Volume 34, issue S2, 2016

Introduction: Special Issue in Honor of JOLE Founder Edward P. Lazear pp. S1 - S2

Paul OyerJOLE Editor-in-Chief

The Manipulation of Children's Preferences, Old-Age Support, and Investment in Children's Human Capital pp. S3 - S30

Gary Becker, Kevin M. Murphy and Jörg Spenkuch

Decomposing Trends in Inequality in Earnings into Forecastable and Uncertain Components pp. S31 - S65

Flávio Cunha and James Heckman

It's Where You Work: Increases in the Dispersion of Earnings across Establishments and Individuals in the United States pp. S67 - S97

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James Davis and Richard Freeman

Human Capital Investment, Inequality, and Economic Growth pp. S99 - S127

Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel

Unhappy Cities pp. S129 - S182

Edward L. Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb and Oren Ziv

Bureaucratic Responses pp. S183 - S215

Canice Prendergast

Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing? pp. S217 - S254

Francine Lafontaine and Kathryn Shaw

Exploration for Human Capital: Evidence from the MBA Labor Market pp. S255 - S286

Camelia Kuhnen and Paul Oyer

Volume 34, issue S1, 2016

Introduction: The Labor Market in the Aftermath of the Great Recession pp. S1 - S6

David CardGuest Editor and Alexandre MasGuest Editor

Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession: The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Nonparticipation pp. S7 - S54

Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, Matthew Notowidigdo and Lawrence Katz

Did the Job Ladder Fail after the Great Recession? pp. S55 - S93

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada, and the United States pp. S95 - S139

Florian Hoffmann and Thomas Lemieux

Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s pp. S141 - S198

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price

The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks pp. S199 - S247

Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin M. Sand

Wage Adjustment in the Great Recession and Other Downturns: Evidence from the United States and Great Britain pp. S249 - S291

Michael Elsby, Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon

Reallocation in the Great Recession: Cleansing or Not? pp. S293 - S331

Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger

Making Do with Less: Working Harder during Recessions pp. S333 - S360

Edward Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton

Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success pp. S361 - S401

Joseph Altonji, Lisa Kahn and Jamin D. Speer

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession pp. S403 - S444

Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes

Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession pp. S445 - S475

Andreas Mueller, Jesse Rothstein and Till M. von Wachter

Volume 34, issue 4, 2016

Social Networks, Employee Selection, and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 825 - 867

Lena Hensvik and Oskar Nordström Skans

The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training pp. 869 - 898

Erik Grönqvist and Erik Lindqvist

The Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women: Evidence from the SIPP pp. 899 - 944

John C. Ham, Xianghong Li and Lara Shore-Sheppard

Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition, or Returns to Skills? pp. 945 - 978

Mario Macis and Fabiano Schivardi

How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes: Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects pp. 979 - 1021

Jane Fruehwirth, Salvador Navarro and Yuya Takahashi

Looking beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need-Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation pp. 1023 - 1073

Ben Castleman and Bridget Long

How Teachers Respond to Pension System Incentives: New Estimates and Policy Applications pp. 1075 - 1104

Shawn Ni and Michael Podgursky

Volume 34, issue 3, 2016

Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay pp. 545 - 579

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

Learning-by-Employing: The Value of Commitment under Uncertainty pp. 581 - 620

Braz Camargo and Elena Pastorino

Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education pp. 621 - 662

John Jones and Fang Yang

Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows, and Labor Market Frictions pp. 663 - 704

Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester and Michael Reich

A Most Egalitarian Profession: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation pp. 705 - 746

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

An “Opposing Responses” Test of Classic versus Market-Based Promotion Tournaments pp. 747 - 779

Jed DeVaro and Antti Kauhanen

The Impact of College Teaching on Students’ Academic and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 781 - 822

Michela Braga, Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari

Volume 34, issue 2, 2016

Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice pp. 275 - 318

Joshua Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Susan Dynarski, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools under a Voucher System: The Case of Chile pp. 319 - 362

Jere Behrman, Michela M. Tincani, Petra Todd and Kenneth I. Wolpin

Testing for Educational Credit Constraints Using Heterogeneity in Individual Time Preferences pp. 363 - 402

Benjamin W. Cowan

The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions pp. 403 - 442

Kristiina Huttunen and Jenni Kellokumpu

Domestic Violence and Divorce Law: When Divorce Threats Become Credible pp. 443 - 477

Pablo Brassiolo

Integrating Immigrants: The Impact of Restructuring Active Labor Market Programs pp. 479 - 508

Matti Sarvimäki and Kari Hämäläinen

When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much? pp. 509 - 543

Jonah B. Gelbach

Volume 34, issue 1, 2016

The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability pp. 1 - 28

Hugh Macartney

Teacher Complementarities in Test Score Production: Evidence from Primary School pp. 29 - 61

Josh Kinsler

Where Have the Middle-Wage Workers Gone? A Study of Polarization Using Panel Data pp. 63 - 105

Guido Matias Cortes

Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market pp. 107 - 160

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Bruno Decreuse, Morgane Laouenan and Alain Trannoy

Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System pp. 161 - 209

Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren and Giorgio Topa

Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter? pp. 211 - 236

Jeffrey Carpenter and Erick Gong

The Minimum Wage and Inequality: The Effects of Education and Technology pp. 237 - 274

Zsofia Barany

Volume 33, issue S1, 2015

Introduction: US High-Skilled Immigration in the Global Economy pp. S1 - S4

William Kerr and Sarah Turner

Attracting Talent: Location Choices of Foreign-Born PhDs in the United States pp. S5 - S38

Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon Hanson

Are Immigrants the Most Skilled US Computer and Engineering Workers? pp. S39 - S77

Jennifer Hunt

Does Immigration Affect Whether US Natives Major in Science and Engineering? pp. S79 - S108

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

Cognitive Mobility: Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas pp. S109 - S145

George Borjas and Kirk Doran

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms pp. S147 - S186

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr and William Lincoln

Recruitment of Foreigners in the Market for Computer Scientists in the United States pp. S187 - S223

John Bound, Breno Braga, Joseph M. Golden and Gaurav Khanna

STEM Workers, H-1B Visas, and Productivity in US Cities pp. S225 - S255

Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber

Immigration and Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists "Bring" to the United States? pp. S257 - S288

Ina Ganguli

Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Coauthorship within the United States pp. S289 - S318

Richard Freeman and Wei Huang

Volume 33, issue 4, 2015

Happiness and Productivity pp. 789 - 822

Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

The Value of Bosses pp. 823 - 861

Edward Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher T. Stanton

Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers pp. 863 - 890

Alan Benson

A Dynamic Model of Weak and Strong Ties in the Labor Market pp. 891 - 932

Yves Zenou

The Specificity of General Human Capital: Evidence from College Major Choice pp. 933 - 972

Josh Kinsler and Ronni Pavan

State Merit Aid Programs and College Major: A Focus on STEM pp. 973 - 1006

David L. Sjoquist and John Winters

The Optimality of Heterogeneous Tournaments pp. 1007 - 1042

Marc Gürtler and Oliver Gürtler

Volume 33, issue 3, 2015

The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment pp. 521 - 569

Josse Delfgaauw, Robert Dur, Arjan Non and Willem Verbeke

Institutions and Contract Enforcement pp. 571 - 590

Armin Falk, David Huffman and W. Bentley Macleod

Professionalism and Contracts in Organizations pp. 591 - 621

Canice Prendergast

Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives pp. 623 - 681

Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

What Do Fishermen Tell Us That Taxi Drivers Do Not? An Empirical Investigation of Labor Supply pp. 683 - 710

Tess M. Stafford

How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply? pp. 711 - 750

Christian Dustmann and Albrecht Glitz

Teacher Quality and Student Inequality pp. 751 - 788

Richard Mansfield

Volume 33, issue 2, 2015

Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children? pp. 269 - 296

Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol and Mirjam Praag

Relative Pay and Labor Supply pp. 297 - 315

Anat Bracha, Uri Gneezy and George Loewenstein

Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs pp. 317 - 363

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs and Sébastien Roux

Gender Segregation in Occupations: The Role of Tipping and Social Interactions pp. 365 - 408

Jessica Pan

Testing Becker's Theory of Positive Assortative Matching pp. 409 - 441

Aloysius Siow

Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Competition? Evidence from a Major Education Reform pp. 443 - 491

Louis-Philippe Morin

Small Differences That Matter: Mistakes in Applying to College pp. 493 - 520

Amanda Pallais

Volume 33, issue 1, 2015

Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets pp. 1 - 32

Ian M. Schmutte

Is a Dream Deferred a Dream Denied? College Enrollment and Time-Varying Opportunity Costs pp. 33 - 61

Francisco Perez-Arce

The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School pp. 63 - 89

Heather Antecol, Ozkan Eren and Serkan Ozbeklik

Peer Effects in Microenvironments: The Benefits of Homogeneous Classroom Groups pp. 91 - 122

Fangwen Lu and Michael Anderson

The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce pp. 123 - 170

Gustaf Bruze, Michael Svarer and Yoram Weiss

Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany pp. 171 - 208

Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo and Holger Lüthen

Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection pp. 209 - 267

Andrea Vindigni, Simone Scotti and Cristina Tealdi