Labour Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Labour Economics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Parental allowance increase and labor supply: Evidence from a Czech reform130
Discrimination in healthcare: A field experiment with Pakistan's transgender community74
Do wages fall when women enter an occupation?73
Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation65
A laptop for every child? The impact of technology on human capital formation51
Return-to-work policies’ clawback regime and labor supply in disability insurance programs39
Image concerns in ex-ante self-assessments–Gender differences and behavioral consequences37
Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market — An application to polarization32
Commuting to work and gender norms by sexual orientation32
The effects of a trade shock on gender-specific labor market outcomes in Brazil29
Grading bias and the leaky pipeline in economics: Evidence from Stockholm University28
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Effects of mandatory residencies on female physicians’ specialty choices: Evidence from Japan's new medical residency program27
Semiparametric distribution regression with instruments and monotonicity24
Male and female selection effects on gender wage gaps in three countries23
Telenovelas and attitudes toward the LGBTQ+ community in Latin America22
School integration of Syrian refugee children in Turkey21
Does social assistance disincentivise employment, job formality, and mobility?21
Job-to-job transitions, job finding and the ins of unemployment21
Government regulation and wages: Evidence from continuing coverage mandates21
The effectiveness of fiscal stimuli for working parents20
Unequal worker exposure to establishment deaths20
National identity and the integration of second-generation immigrants20
Federal minimum wage expansion to homecare workers: Employment and income effects19
Skill biased tax policy change: Labor market effects of China’s VAT reform18
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Import Shocks and Gendered Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Mexico17
Peer effects in an automated world17
The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship16
Do refugees impact crime? Causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany16
Permanent and transitory earnings dynamics and lifetime income inequality in Sweden16
Hollowing out of opportunity: Automation technology and intergenerational mobility in the United States16
Minimum wage and self-employed business owners: Evidence from South Korea15
Employment discrimination and labor market protections for sexual minorities in Brazil14
Unlucky migrants: Scarring effect of recessions on the assimilation of the foreign born14
Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts14
Measuring the quality of a match14
Effects of workload allocation per course on students’ academic outcomes: Evidence from STEM degrees14
Job loss, consumption insurance, and household time allocation13
Search, unemployment, and the Beveridge curve: Experimental evidence13
The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities13
Golfing CEOs13
Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and quality of primary care13
Social restrictions, leisure and well-being12
Post-Schooling off-The-Job training and its benefits12
Paying (and Paving) my way: Extra-class participation and rent extraction12
Designing the market for job vacancies: A trust experiment with employment centers staff12
Explaining the Labor Share: Automation Vs Labor Market Institutions12
International trade, skill premium and endogenous labor division: The case of Mexico12
Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks12
How accurately are household surveys measuring the LGBT population in Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment12
Do deferred benefit cuts for current employees increase separation?12
Occupational barriers and the productivity penalty from lack of legal status11
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals11
Minimum wage and financially distressed firms: Another one bites the dust11
The effect of teacher subject-specific qualifications on student science achievement11
Specializing in growing sectors: Wage returns and gender differences11
Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off: Impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy10
Do women expect wage cuts for part-time work?10
The economic value of language in China: How important is Mandarin proficiency in the Chinese labor market? A bounding approach10
The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-1910
Teacher turnover: Effects, mechanisms and organisational responses10
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Job polarization and non-standard work: Evidence from France10
Gender wage gaps and worker mobility: Evidence from the garment sector in Bangladesh10
Racial inequality in frictional labor markets: Evidence from minimum wages10
Best and brightest? The impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US10
Corrigendum to “The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions” [Labor Economics, Volume 85, 2023, 102433]9
Labour market institutions and long term adjustments to health shocks: Evidence from Italian administrative records9
Specialists or generalists? Cross-industry mobility and wages9
Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis9
Individuals’ responsiveness to marginal tax rates: Evidence from bunching in the Australian personal income tax9
Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant missionaries, local churches, and literacy in Colonial Korea9
Salary history bans and healing scars from past recessions9
Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea—Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy9
Employee training and firm performance: Evidence from ESF grant applications9
Has COVID-19 induced labor market mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK9
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?9
Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market9
Presence of language-learning opportunities and migration9
Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades9
Asymmetries in the gender effect of high-performing peers: Evidence from tertiary education8
Heterogeneous effects of poverty on attention8
Social spillovers of China’s left-behind children in the classroom8
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK8
The multigenerational impacts of educational expansion: Evidence from Vietnam8
Earnings cyclicality of new and continuing jobs: The role of tenure and transition length8
Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education8
Students under academic pressure and their spillover effects on peers’ mental well-being8
Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism8
Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions8
Employment and Wage Consequences of Flexible Wage Components8
Transgender employment and gender marker laws8
Does more free childcare help parents work more?8
Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job7
Is private education worth it? Evidence from school-to-work transitions in Chile7
Mothers at work: How mandating a short maternity leave affects work and fertility7
Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment7
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Cross-country differences in preferences for leisure7
Reducing maternal labor market detachment: A role for paid family leave7
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees7
Robots and labor in nursing homes7
Severe work disabilities and long-lasting losses7
Workplace segregation and the labour market performance of immigrants7
Drill, baby, drill: Natural resource shocks and fertility in Indonesia7
The cyclicality of on-the-job search7
Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation7
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Understanding the racial employment gap: The role of sectoral shifts7
How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment?7
The effects of minimum wages on employment and prices—Evidence from the hairdressing sector7
The effect of education on internal migration of young men and women: incidence, timing, and type of migration7
Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences7
Train drain? Access to foreign workers and firms’ provision of training7
Youth disconnection during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Disentangling the Effects of Large Minimum Wage and VAT Changes on Prices: Evidence from Mexico7
Does scarcity of female instructors create demand for diversity among students? Evidence from an M-Turk experiment6
Of housewives and feminists: Gender norms and intra-household division of labour6
RCT evidence on differential impact of US job training programmes by pre-training employment status6
Inequality of Educational Opportunities and the Role of Learning Intensity6
The reliability of students’ earnings expectations6
Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process6
Peer effects in parental leave: Evidence from Italy6
Is the UK’s productivity puzzle mostly driven by occupational mismatch? An analysis using big data on job vacancies6
Can work sharing sustain employment during economic downturn? Evidence from Brazil6
Intra-firm hierarchies and gender gaps6
The promise (and peril) in approaching gender parity: Preregistered survey experiments addressing gender inequality in negotiations6
The effects of gender-specific local labor demand on birth and later outcomes6
How Big is the Gig? The Extensive Margin, The Intensive Margin, and The Hidden Margin6
Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis6
The effect of the language of instruction on academic performance6
Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany6
Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from a pension reform6
Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples6
The impact of only child peers on students’ cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes5
Distribution of vacancies and new hires across employers: Implications for job offers, skill requirements, and employers’ search outcomes5
Incentive contracts with pay gap and pay equity5
Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance5
What can we learn about the effect of mental health on labor market outcomes under weak assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY795
Fertility discrimination in the Chinese labor market: Evidence from a correspondence study and an employer survey5
Influence in economics and aging5
Preference-choice mismatch and university dropout5
Decomposing the exporter wage gap: Selection or differential returns?5
Technology and the labor market5
Effects of prescription opioids on employment, earnings, marriage, disability and mortality: Evidence from state opioid control policies5
Between-group inequality may decline despite a rising skill premium5
The value of commuting time, flexibility, and job security: Evidence from current and recent jobseekers in Flanders5
Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? Evidence from Europe and the U.S.5
Estimating heterogeneous effects: Applications to labor economics5
The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions5
The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments5
Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe5
Peer effects in pension decision-making: evidence from China's new rural pension scheme5
High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM4
Does employment protection unprotect workers? The labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru4
Health workforce reallocation in the aftermath of conflict: Evidence from Colombia4
Slack and prices during Covid-19: Accounting for labor market participation4
The effect of unemployment duration on reservation wages: Evidence from Belgium4
The “mommy track” in the workplace. Evidence from a large French firm4
Ageing and labor productivity4
Computerization, obsolescence and the length of working life4
LGBT+ persons and homophobia prevalence across job sectors: Survey evidence from Mexico4
Marriage wage premium with contract type heterogeneity4
Labor market rigidities and misallocation: Evidence from a natural experiment4
Filling in the blanks: How does information about the Swedish EITC affect labour supply?4
Job satisfaction and trade union membership in Germany4
Robots, Natives and Immigrants in US local labor markets4
Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility4
The labor market impacts of ridesharing on American Cities4
Employee entrepreneurship and signaling role of corporate venturing decisions4
Distributional effects of education on mental health4
The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile4
Marriage patterns and the gender gap in labor force participation: Evidence from Italy4
Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? Evidence from a top university in Brazil4
Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap4
Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain4
Everybody’s got to learn sometime? A causal machine learning evaluation of training programmes for jobseekers in France4
Household specialization and the child penalty in the Netherlands4
Equilibrium effects of tax exemptions for low pay4
The value of specific skills under shock: High risks and high returns4
Merit-based scholarships for university graduates: A generation of Italian economists4
College majors and skills: Evidence from the universe of online job ads4
Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands4
The demand for AI skills in the labor market4
Parental Leave Policy and Long-run Earnings of Mothers4
Education-oriented and care-oriented preschools: Implications on child development4
Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?4
Health information and the timing of social security benefit entitlements3
Introduction to the Labour Economics special issue on immigration economics3
Intrahousehold property ownership, women’s bargaining power, and family structure3
Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects3
“Beauty too rich for use”: Billionaires’ assets and attractiveness3
Job search with commuting and unemployment insurance: A look at workers’ strategies in time3
Vocational training for female job returners - Effects on employment, earnings and job quality3
The effects of the affordable care act dependent coverage mandate on parents’ labor market outcomes3
The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect3
Economic sanctions and informal employment3
Equilibrium effects of payroll tax reductions and optimal policy design3
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Mother tongue-based education in a diverse society and the acquisition of foundational skills: Evidence from the Philippines3
The longer term impact of hiring credits. Evidence from France3
The gray zone: How not imposing a strict lockdown at the beginning of a pandemic can cost many lives3
The persistent impact of multiple offers3
Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits3
Improving children's foundational learning through community-school participation: Experimental evidence from rural India3
Discrimination against gay and transgender people in Latin America: A correspondence study in the rental housing market3
The decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data3
Determinants of job interestingness: Comparison of Japan and other high-income countries3
If (my) 6 was (your) 9. Reporting heterogeneity in student evaluations of teaching3
Employment protection and firm-provided training in dual labour markets3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-great recession entrants: Evidence from Mexico3
The impact of absent co-workers on productivity in teams3
Television and family demography: Evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany3
Willingness to be paid: Who trains for tech jobs?3
ICT capital–skill complementarity and wage inequality: Evidence from OECD countries3
Job displacement and the mental health of households: Burden sharing counteracts spillover3
Subjective unemployment expectations and (self-)insurance3
Working hours and gender wage differentials: Evidence from the American Working Conditions Survey3
Melting pot kindergarten: The effect of linguistic diversity in early education3
Motivating gig workers – evidence from a field experiment3
Mortality risk, perception, and human capital investments: The legacy of landmines in Cambodia3
Search costs and the determinants of job search3
Returns to on-the-job search and wage dispersion3
Training in late careers — A structural approach2
The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers’ employment2
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market2
Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?2
Is sex ratio a valid distribution factor in a collective model?2
Quality hours: Measuring labor input2
Tackling misperceptions about immigrants with fact-checking interventions: A randomized survey experiment2
What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?2
Migration, housing constraints, and inequality: A quantitative analysis of China2
Firm-specific pay premia and the returns to higher education: Evidence from community colleges2
Industrial robots, Workers’ safety, and health2
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Can leagues mitigate the demoralization effect of rank feedback? A randomized controlled trial2
Programs of study and earnings dynamics2
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases2
The effect of negative income shocks on pensioners2
Trade Unions and the Process of Technological Change2
International labor market competition and wives’ labor supply responses2
Parents under stress: Evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany2
The long-run impact of the Great Recession on student debt2
Gig-jobs: Stepping stones or dead ends?2
The costs and potential benefits of occupational licensing: A case of real estate license reform2
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