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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Effects of workload allocation per course on students’ academic outcomes: Evidence from STEM degrees142
International trade, skill premium and endogenous labor division: The case of Mexico78
Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea—Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy74
Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market73
The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities55
Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades44
The effectiveness of fiscal stimuli for working parents42
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic41
Parental allowance increase and labor supply: Evidence from a Czech reform40
Labour market institutions and long term adjustments to health shocks: Evidence from Italian administrative records34
Employment discrimination and labor market protections for sexual minorities in Brazil31
Influence in economics and aging29
Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences27
Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance27
Train drain? Access to foreign workers and firms’ provision of training27
Employee entrepreneurship and signaling role of corporate venturing decisions26
Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism26
How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment?26
Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment25
Employment and Wage Consequences of Flexible Wage Components23
Youth disconnection during the COVID-19 pandemic22
Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation21
Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions21
The demand for AI skills in the labor market20
RCT evidence on differential impact of US job training programmes by pre-training employment status20
Technology and the labor market20
Vocational training for female job returners - Effects on employment, earnings and job quality19
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Working more for more and working more for less: Labor supply in the gain and loss domains17
Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap17
Economic sanctions and informal employment17
Perceived returns to job search17
The labor market impacts of ridesharing on American Cities17
The decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data17
Does employment protection unprotect workers? The labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru17
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-great recession entrants: Evidence from Mexico17
Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits17
The gray zone: How not imposing a strict lockdown at the beginning of a pandemic can cost many lives17
The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men16
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market15
Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies: The Londö public works in the Central African Republic15
Losing in a boom: Long-term consequences of a local economic shock for female labour market outcomes14
The impact of absent co-workers on productivity in teams14
Migration, housing constraints, and inequality: A quantitative analysis of China14
Words matter: Gender, jobs and applicant behavior14
Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage changes: Experimental evidence from an online labor market14
Job ladders and labour market assimilation of immigrants13
Grand-parenthood and retirement13
Head Start and mothers’ work: Free child care or something more?13
Work that can be done from home: evidence on variation within and across occupations and industries12
Working hours and employee health: Evidence from China's workweek reduction policy12
Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment12
The gender pay gap revisited: Does machine learning offer new insights?12
Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap12
Local labor markets and job match quality: Teachers12
Programs of study and earnings dynamics12
Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany12
Immigration and labour market flows12
Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-Country evidence on “She-Cessions”12
Retirement coordination and leisure complementarity11
The long-run elasticity of labor supply: New evidence for New York City taxicab drivers11
Gender homophily in job referrals: Evidence from a field study among university students11
Parental job loss and children’s career choices11
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Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy11
Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society11
Mandatory activation of welfare recipients: Less time, less crime?11
Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? – Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden11
An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial10
Search and reallocation in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK10
Employer Search Behavior: Reasons for Internal Hiring10
Pension reforms and couples’ labour supply decisions10
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful10
Economic shocks and skill acquisition: Evidence from a national online learning platform at the onset of COVID-1910
The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities10
Heterogeneous effects of grade framing10
Discrimination against lesbian and gay job seekers: An artefactual field experiment in urban Ecuador10
Local changes in intergenerational mobility10
The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers10
The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe10
Labour market impacts of the China shock: Why the tide of Globalisation did not lift all boats10
Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off: Impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy9
Convergence over time or not? U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2000–20199
Reassessing classification errors in the analysis of labor market dynamics9
The intergenerational correlation of employment: Mothers as role models?9
Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium9
Trade Shocks and Firms Hiring Decisions: Evidence from Vacancy Postings of Chinese Firms in the Trade War9
Golfing CEOs9
Post-Schooling off-The-Job training and its benefits9
The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship9
Short-time work and unionization9
The impact of the minimum wage on the characteristics of new establishments: Evidence from South Korea9
Informal housing clearance, housing market, and labor supply9
The spillover of anti-immigration politics to the schoolyard9
Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and quality of primary care9
Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts9
Import Shocks and Gendered Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Mexico9
Community colleges and careers: Evidence from nursing school lotteries9
Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model9
The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market: Evidence from World War II in Japan9
Deunionization and skills9
Male and female selection effects on gender wage gaps in three countries9
Inequality of Educational Opportunities and the Role of Learning Intensity8
Decomposing the exporter wage gap: Selection or differential returns?8
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees8
Of housewives and feminists: Gender norms and intra-household division of labour8
What can we learn about the effect of mental health on labor market outcomes under weak assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY798
Robots and labor in nursing homes8
Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the Covid-19 pandemic8
The effects of a trade shock on gender-specific labor market outcomes in Brazil8
Drill, baby, drill: Natural resource shocks and fertility in Indonesia8
Estimating heterogeneous effects: Applications to labor economics8
The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments8
Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe8
The persistent impact of multiple offers8
The supply of nursing labor in French hospitals: Outflows, part-time work and motherhood8
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals8
Disentangling the Effects of Large Minimum Wage and VAT Changes on Prices: Evidence from Mexico8
How accurately are household surveys measuring the LGBT population in Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment8
Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from a pension reform8
LGBT+ persons and homophobia prevalence across job sectors: Survey evidence from Mexico8
Filling in the blanks: How does information about the Swedish EITC affect labour supply?8
Employee training and firm performance: Evidence from ESF grant applications8
Distributional effects of education on mental health7
Not the right time for children: Unemployment, fertility, and abortion7
Assessing data from summary questions about earnings and income7
The effects of equal pay laws on firm pay premiums: Evidence from Chile7
Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects7
The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers’ employment7
Improving children's foundational learning through community-school participation: Experimental evidence from rural India7
Television and family demography: Evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany7
What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?7
The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows7
Trade Unions and the Process of Technological Change7
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases7
Gender mix and team performance: Differences between exogenously and endogenously formed teams7
Corrigendum to “Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance” [Labour Economics 88 (2024) 102545]6
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Stung by pension reforms: The unequal impact of changes in state pension age on UK women and their partners6
Early retirement incentives and transition into informality6
How do wage setting institutions affect wage rigidity? Evidence from French micro data6
Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery6
Mortality risk, perception, and human capital investments: The legacy of landmines in Cambodia6
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Individual labor market effects of local public expenditures on sports6
Recent research on labor supply: Implications for tax and transfer policy6
How is global commerce affecting the gender composition of employment? A firm-level analysis of the effects of exposure to gender norms via trade and FDI6
Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias6
Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda6
The role of tasks, contractual arrangements, and job composition in explaining the dynamics of wage inequality: Evidence from France6
Citizenship and integration6
Good personality traits in bad times: Does conscientiousness mitigate the adverse effects of graduating in a recession?6
Intergenerational disadvantage: Learning about equal opportunity from social assistance receipt6
Gender norms and the gender gap in higher education6
Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK6
The effects of Covid-19 on couples’ job tenures: Mothers have it worse6
The effects of expanding access to mental health services on SS(D)I applications and awards5
Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans5
Making the right call: The heterogeneous effects of individual performance pay on productivity5
CPS Nonresponse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Explanations, Extent, and Effects5
Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery5
Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant missionaries, local churches, and literacy in Colonial Korea5
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Seasonality in U.S. disability applications, labor market, and the pandemic echoes5
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Can subsidies to permanent employment change fertility decisions?5
The labor market impacts of employer consolidation: Evidence from Germany5
The impact of working conditions on mental health: Novel evidence from the UK5
Job polarization and non-standard work: Evidence from France5
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Is there discrimination against children of same-sex households? Evidence from an experimental study in Colombia5
Teamwork in innovation under time pressure5
Joining late, leaving early? Immigrant-native disparities in labor market exit5
Government aid and child refugees’ economic success later in life: Evidence from post-WWII GDR refugees5
The causal effect of genetic variants linked to cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes5
Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital5
Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis5
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Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process4
Why do you like or dislike your job?4
The effect of the language of instruction on academic performance4
Education-oriented and care-oriented preschools: Implications on child development4
Understanding the racial employment gap: The role of sectoral shifts4
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK4
Job-to-job transitions, job finding and the ins of unemployment4
Best and brightest? The impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US4
Paying (and Paving) my way: Extra-class participation and rent extraction4
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?4
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Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job4
Incentive contracts with pay gap and pay equity4
Heterogeneous effects of poverty on attention4
Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation4
Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks4
Unequal worker exposure to establishment deaths4
Hollowing out of opportunity: Automation technology and intergenerational mobility in the United States4
Teacher turnover: Effects, mechanisms and organisational responses4
Can work sharing sustain employment during economic downturn? Evidence from Brazil4
Peer effects in parental leave: Evidence from Italy4
Preference-choice mismatch and university dropout4
Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market — An application to polarization4
Specialists or generalists? Cross-industry mobility and wages4
The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-194
The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: Evidence from English women4
Temperament traits and economic preferences predict occupational choice beyond human capital variables3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health management: Evidence from individual-level universal insurance claims data3
Teacher evaluation for accountability and growth: Should policy treat them as complements or substitutes?3
All about the money? The gendered effect of education on industrial and occupational sorting3
Driver’s license reforms and job accessibility among undocumented immigrants3
Robots at work in emerging developing countries: How bad could it be?3
Working from home, hours worked and wages: Heterogeneity by gender and parenthood3
The minimum wage and the wage distribution in Portugal3
Occupational Skill Premia around the World: New Data, Patterns and Drivers3
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Computerization, obsolescence and the length of working life3
Robots, Natives and Immigrants in US local labor markets3
Do ability peer effects matter for academic and labor market outcomes?3
Occupational safety in a frictional labor market3
A cycle or a tunnel? A study on unemployment and low-pay dynamics in Italy3
Expectation formation and learning in the labour market with on-the-job search and Nash bargaining3
Tastes for discrimination in monopsonistic labour markets3
Vacancies, employment outcomes and firm growth: Evidence from Denmark3
The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach3
Works councils as gatekeepers: Codetermination, management practices, and job satisfaction3
The unemployed with jobs and without jobs3
The value of unemployment insurance: Liquidity vs. insurance value3
Conflict exposure and labour market outcomes: Evidence from longitudinal data for the Gaza Strip3
If (my) 6 was (your) 9. Reporting heterogeneity in student evaluations of teaching3
Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands3
Effects of school displacement on academic achievement and wellbeing of ethnic minorities3
Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?3
Revisiting the determinants of unemployment duration: Variance decomposition à la ABS in Spain3
The gender gap in top jobs – The role of overconfidence3
University Admission and the Similarity of Fields of Study: Effects on Earnings and Skill Usage3
Effects of stay-at-home orders on skill requirements in vacancy postings3
Public health insurance and employment transitions3
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK3
Why do women ask for less?3
Parental earnings response to children's job loss: Evidence from Finland3
Does information disclosure affect the gender gap in bidding behavior? Empirical evidence from a natural experiment on a large online labor platform3
Moving from a poor economy to a rich one: A job tasks approach3
The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect3
Corrigendum to “The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities” [Labour Economics, 87, 2024, 102509]3
Subjective unemployment expectations and (self-)insurance3
From epidemic to pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on high school program choices in Sweden3
The effect of teacher subject-specific qualifications on student science achievement2
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