Journal of Labor Economics

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Volume 30, issue 4, 2012

Learning about Academic Ability and the College Dropout Decision pp. 707 - 748

Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching pp. 749 - 782

Mariesa A. Herrmann and Jonah E. Rockoff

Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes pp. 783 - 828

Joseph Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj and Fabian Lange

Gender Differences in Executive Compensation and Job Mobility pp. 829 - 872

George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan and Robert A. Miller

Labor Market Signaling and Self-Confidence: Wage Compression and the Gender Pay Gap pp. 873 - 914

Luís Santos-Pinto

Spousal Conflict and Divorce pp. 915 - 962

Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

Volume 30, issue 3, 2012

Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out pp. 495 - 520

James J. Heckman, John Humphries, Paul LaFontaine and Pedro L. Rodríguez

On the Use of Expectations Data in Estimating Structural Dynamic Choice Models pp. 521 - 554

Wilbert van der Klaauw

Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Mexico pp. 555 - 589

Pierre Dubois, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

The Internal Economics of a University: Evidence from Personnel Data pp. 591 - 626

Catherine Haeck and Frank Verboven

Dynamically Sabotage-Proof Tournaments pp. 627 - 655

Junichiro Ishida

Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Structural Model of Birth Weight pp. 657 - 706

Emilia Del Bono, John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

Volume 30, issue 2, 2012

Performance Pay and the White-Black Wage Gap pp. 249 - 290

John Heywood and Daniel Parent

People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks pp. 291 - 332

Federico Cingano and Alfonso Rosolia

Experimentation and Job Choice pp. 333 - 366

Kate Antonovics and Limor Golan

The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Evidence on Ability Peer Effects in Schools pp. 367 - 414

Victor Lavy, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt

Does Employer Learning Vary by Occupation? pp. 415 - 444

Hani Mansour

Putting Grades in Context pp. 445 - 478

Talia Bar, Vrinda Kadiyali and Asaf Zussman

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions: Reply to Priest pp. 479 - 494

Alvin Roth

Volume 30, issue 1, 2012

Tasks and Heterogeneous Human Capital pp. 1 - 53

Shintaro Yamaguchi

The Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market pp. 55 - 89

Christopher L. Smith

The Signaling Role of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence pp. 91 - 147

Jed DeVaro and Michael Waldman

Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multistage Elimination Tournaments pp. 149 - 174

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk and Matthias Wibral

The Labor Market Impact of Immigration: A Quasi-Experiment Exploiting Immigrant Location Rules in Germany pp. 175 - 213

Albrecht Glitz

The Impact of Unilateral Divorce on Crime pp. 215 - 248

Julio Caceres-Delpiano and Eugenio Giolito

Volume 29, issue 4, 2011

Neighbors and Coworkers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks pp. 659 - 695

Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

Labor Reallocation over the Business Cycle: New Evidence from Internal Migration pp. 697 - 739

Raven E. Saks and Abigail Wozniak

The Effect of Liquid Housing Wealth on College Enrollment pp. 741 - 771

Michael Lovenheim

Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter? pp. 773 - 818

Suqin Ge

Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia pp. 819 - 857

Christopher Bollinger, James Ziliak and Kenneth Troske

The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis pp. 859 - 892

Monique De Haan

Volume 29, issue 3, 2011

Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa pp. 417 - 457

Jennifer Hunt

Child Care Choices and Children's Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers pp. 459 - 512

Raquel Bernal and Michael Keane

Competition and the Ratchet Effect pp. 513 - 547

Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval

Career Choice and Wage Growth pp. 549 - 587

Ronni Pavan

Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils? pp. 589 - 635

Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva

Incentives versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 637 - 658

Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek, Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw

Volume 29, issue 2, 2011

Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans pp. 195 - 227

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

Interim Performance Feedback in Multistage Tournaments: The Optimality of Partial Disclosure pp. 229 - 265

Maria Goltsman and Arijit Mukherjee

The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic pp. 267 - 300

David Card, Pablo Ibarraran, Ferdinando Regalia, David Rosas-Shady and Yuri Soares

How Do College Students Form Expectations? pp. 301 - 348

Basit Zafar

On the Economic Architecture of the Workplace: Repercussions of Social Comparisons among Heterogeneous Workers pp. 349 - 375

Oded Stark and Walter Hyll

The Effects of Charter High Schools on Educational Attainment pp. 377 - 415

Kevin Booker, Tim R. Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer

Volume 29, issue 1, 2011

The External Effects of Black Male Incarceration onBlack Females pp. 1-35

Stéphane Mechoulan

The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers pp. 37-68

Miles Corak and Patrizio Piraino

Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration pp. 69-113

Abdurrahman Aydemir and George Borjas

Displacement, Asymmetric Information, and HeterogeneousHuman Capital pp. 113-152

Luojia Hu and Christopher Taber

Providing Employers with Incentives to Train Low-SkilledWorkers: Evidence from the UK Employer Training Pilots pp. 153-193

Laura Abramovsky, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons, Alissa Goodman and Helen Simpson

Volume 28, issue 4, 2010

The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets:American Cities during the Great Depression pp. 719-746

Leah Boustan, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation, and Production Technology pp. 747-772

Sebastian Goerg, Sebastian Kube and Ro'i Zultan

Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children pp. 773-824

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser

Identifying Peer Effects in Student Academic Achievement by Spatial Autoregressive Models with Group Unobservables pp. 825-860

Xu Lin

Interracial Friendships in College pp. 861-892

Braz Camargo, Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd Stinebrickner

Investment Tournaments: When Should a Rational Agent Put All Eggs in One Basket? pp. 893-922

Michael Schwarz and Sergei Severinov

Volume 28, issue 3, 2010

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention pp. 473-508

William Kerr and William Lincoln

Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentive Compensation in the Church pp. 509-539

Jay C. Hartzell, Christopher A. Parsons and David L. Yermack

Educational Attainment and the Changing U.S. Wage Structure: Dynamic Implications on Young Individuals' Choices pp. 541-594

Moshe Buchinsky and Phillip Leslie

Job Search, Bargaining, and Wage Dynamics pp. 595-631

Shintaro Yamaguchi

When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State pp. 633-676

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime pp. 677-718

Bryan Engelhardt

Volume 28, issue 2, 2010

Labor Market Monopsony pp. 203-210

Orley Ashenfelter, Henry Farber and Michael Ransom

Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment pp. 211-236

Douglas O. Staiger, Joanne Spetz and Ciaran S. Phibbs

The Elasticity of Labor Supply at the Establishment Level pp. 237-266

Torberg Falch

New Market Power Models and Sex Differences in Pay pp. 267-289

Michael Ransom and Ronald Oaxaca

Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany pp. 291-330

Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a "New Monopsony" Framework: Schoolteachers in Missouri pp. 331-355

Michael Ransom and David P. Sims

Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers pp. 357-412

Jeremy Fox

Recruitment Restrictions and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Postbellum U.S. South pp. 413-445

Suresh Naidu

Timing "Disturbances" in Labor Market Contracting: Roth's Findings and the Effects of Labor Market Monopsony pp. 447-472

George L. Priest

Volume 28, issue 1, 2010

How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach pp. 1-49

Christina Gathmann and Uta Schönberg

Preschoolers Enrolled and Mothers at Work? The Effects of Universal Prekindergarten pp. 51-85

Maria Fitzpatrick

The Thrill of Victory: Measuring the Incentive to Win pp. 87-112

Bentley Coffey and Michael Maloney

Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action in Higher Education pp. 113-166

Jessica S. Howell

Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments pp. 167-201

Luis Garicano and Paul Heaton