Labour Economics

1993 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. Ichino

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Volume 98, issue C, 2026

Career preferences and socio-economic background

Paul Schüle

Does immigration affect native wages? A meta-analysis

Amandine Aubry, Jérôme Héricourt, Léa Marchal and Clément Nedoncelle

Older workers, pension reforms and firm outcomes

Francesca Carta, D’Amuri, Francesco and Till von Wachter

Minimum wages in a dual labor market: Evidence from the 2019 minimum-wage hike in Spain

Alexander Hijzen, Mateo Montenegro and Ana Sofia Pessoa

The two faces of worker specialization

Zsófia L. Bárány and Kerstin Holzheu

Replacing labour with capital: Evidence from aggregate mobility shocks

Bharadwaj Kannan, Roberto Pinheiro and Harry J. Turtle

Are households Pareto efficient? A test based on multiple job holding

Jacob Penglase and Ömer F. Sözbir

Partner effects and collaborative learning

Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and Dunia López-Pintado

The long shadow of labor market entry conditions: Intergenerational determinants of mental health

Micole De Vera, Javier Garcia-Brazales and Jiayi Lin

Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence

Riley K. Acton, Jo R. King and Austin C. Smith

Labor market dynamics in a highly competitive industry

Francesco Principe and Jan C. van Ours

Skill-biased wage effects of domestic outsourcing

Eren Gürer and Erol Taymaz

Volume 97, issue C, 2025

Social networks and job referrals in recruitment

Marie Lalanne

Minimum wage increases and vacancies

Marianna Kudlyak, Murat Tasci and Didem Tüzemen

Tip suggestions and service efficiency

Guangli Zhang and Jeffrey Cross

First generation college students and peer effects

Michael S. Kofoed and Todd R. Jones

The Hedgehog’s curse: Knowledge specialization and displacement loss

Victor Hernandez Martinez, Hans A. Holter and Roberto Pinheiro

Gender norms and child penalties

Radine Rafols

Work less but stay longer — Mature worker responses to a flexibility reform

Erik Hernæs, Zhiyang Jia, John Piggott and Trond Christian Vigtel

Disentangling structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change

Dominik Boddin and Thilo Kroeger

The effects of tenure-track systems on selection and productivity in Economics

Marco Giovanni Nieddu, Roberto Nisticò and Lorenzo Pandolfi

The impact of terrorism on education: Evidence from the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan

Saqib Hussain and Chungeun Yoon

Intergenerational transmission of time preferences: Evidence from rural Thailand

Suparee W. Boonmanunt, Wasinee Jantorn, Varunee Khruapradit and Weerachart T. Kilenthong

Long-run impacts of fertility restriction policy on China’s gender gap in career advancement

Chen Chen

Gendered effects of community bereavement on time use: Evidence from the Sewol ferry disaster

Dongyoung Kim and Sok Chul Hong

Women as breadwinners: A multifaceted relocation program and women’s labour market outcomes

Yawen Ding, Xiaobing Wang, Alan de Brauw and Huanguang Qiu

How IT-specialized majors pay off: Evidence from an IT industry shock

Tianze Liu

Gender mix prescription: Is it the cure for job satisfaction and retention?

Margherita Agnoletto and Martina Repetto

The impact of flexibility at work on fertility

Bernt Bratsberg and Selma Walther

Career concerns as a public good: The role of signaling for open source software development

Lena Abou El-Komboz and Moritz Goldbeck

Peer effects on college choice: Evidence from affirmative action in China

Mengying Peng and Xiaoyang Ye

Import competition and the rise of precarious employment: Evidence from individual-level and firm-level data in China

Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang and Hartmut Lehmann

Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups

Yuxuan Zhang

Breaking barriers: The impacts of employer exposure to immigrants

Steven Lehrer, Louis-Pierre Lepage and Nuno Sousa Pereira

Wage setting protocols and labor market conditions: Theory and evidence

Stanislav Rabinovich, Brenda Samaniego de la Parra and Ronald Wolthoff

Inequality in pension contribution gaps1

Salvador Valdés-Prieto and Samuel Leyton

Work meaning and fair wages

Thimo De Schouwer, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Iris Kesternich and Heiner Schumacher

Tuition fees and academic (in)activity

Johannes Berens, Leandro Henao and Kerstin Schneider

Asymmetric labor supply responses to tax rate reform: Experimental evidence

Katharina Pfeil, Matthias Kasper, Sarah Necker and Lars Feld

Market-oriented reforms and human capital reallocation in urban China: A gender perspective

Pengzhan Qian

Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy

Brock M. Wilson

Gender differences in preferences for flexible work hours: Experimental evidence from an online freelancing platform

Rakesh Banerjee, Tushar Bharati, Adnan M.S. Fakir, Yiwei Qian and Naveen Sunder

Are ‘good’ firms, good for all employees?

Matteo Targa

Firms, industries and the gender wage gap

Shira Buzaglo-Baris

Persistence and seasonal long memory in unemployment in the United States

Guilherme de Oliveira Lima Cagliari Marques and Mateus Gonzalez de Freitas Pinto

Labor costs and domestic value added: Evidence based on the China’s new Labor Contract law

Dongmin Kong, Yifan Jin and Shasha Liu

Knowledge economy, internal migration, and local labour markets

Agar Brugiavini, Marco Di Cataldo and Giulia Romani

On the road to social mobility? Affirmative action and major choice

Fernanda Estevan, Thomas Gall and Louis-Philippe Morin

Deconstructing job search behavior

Stefano Banfi, Sekyu Choi and Benjamín Villena-Roldán

Labour market outcomes of minimum wage changes: A behavioural perspective

Tong Wang

The effects of negative labor market conditions at entry: Evidence from the 2004–05 NHL lockout

Chengyuan Hua and Brad R. Humphreys

Divorce, parental conflicts and child skills: A story of selection

Gloria Moroni and Alexander Vickery