OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Labour Economics is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs	74
The demand for AI skills in the labor market	63
COVID-19 doesn’t need lockdowns to destroy jobs: The effect of local outbreaks in Korea	60
What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it	56
Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets	53
Concentration in US labor markets: Evidence from online vacancy data	50
Work that can be done from home: evidence on variation within and across occupations and industries	47
Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Field Experiment	32
Working from home, hours worked and wages: Heterogeneity by gender and parenthood	27
Intergenerational mobility across Australia and the stability of regional estimates	26
Shedding light on the shadows of informality: A meta-analysis of formalization interventions targeted at informal firms	26
Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation-Evidence from workplace closures	25
Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe	24
Gender norms, fairness and relative working hours within households	24
Effective like me? Does having a more productive mentor improve the productivity of mentees?	23
Industrial robots, Workers’ safety, and health	22
The dynamics of disappearing routine jobs: A flows approach	21
The impact of working conditions on mental health: Novel evidence from the UK	21
Free college? Assessing enrollment responses to the Tennessee Promise program	20
Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery	20
Employment protection and firm-provided training in dual labour markets	19
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?	19
Local labour demand and immigrant employment	19
Linguistic diversity and workplace productivity	18
Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age	18

Labor market impacts of states issuing of driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants	18
Occupational routine intensity and the costs of job loss: evidence from mass layoffs	16
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals	16
Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value	16
The unequal impact of ill health: Earnings, employment, and mental health among breast cancer survivors in Finland	15
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market	15
The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment	15
Social spillovers of China’s left-behind children in the classroom	15
Home sweet home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	15
Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands	15
Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility	14
Job Tasks and Wages in Developed Countries: Evidence from PIAAC	13
How vocational education made women better off but left men behind	13
Parental proximity and earnings after job displacements	13
Partial automation and the technology-enabled deskilling of routine jobs	13
What cannot be cured must be endured: The long-lasting effect of a COVID-19 infection on workplace productivity.	13
“No more credit score”: Employer credit check bans and signal substitution	13
Explaining the Labor Share: Automation Vs Labor Market Institutions	12
The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women's Labor Market Outcomes	12
Employment of R&D personnel after an educational supply shock: Effects of the introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland	12
Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-Country evidence on “She-Cessions”	12
High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM	12
Do female politicians matter for female labor market outcomes? Evidence from state legislative elections in India	12
Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects: A randomized field experiment	12
Peers’ parents and educational attainment: The exposure effect	11
The long-term effect of resource booms on human capital	11
Mission of the company, prosocial attitudes and job preferences: A discrete choice experiment	11
Peer effects in pension decision-making: evidence from China's new rural pension scheme	11
The economics of migration: Labour market impacts and migration policies	11
Disruptive Peers in the Classroom and Students’ Academic Outcomes: Evidence and Mechanisms	10
Employee training and firm performance: Evidence from ESF grant applications	10
Employment effects of on-the-job human capital acquisition	10
Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education	10
The impact of SNAP work requirements on labor supply	9
The impact of austerity measures on the public - private sector wage gap in Europe	9
Does electricity drive structural transformation? Evidence from the United States	9
Does low skilled immigration increase the education of natives? Evidence from Italian provinces	9
Occupational Attainment and Earnings in Southeast Asia: The Role of Non-cognitive Skills	9
Time devoted to home production and retirement in couples: A panel data analysis	9
Search design and online job search – new avenues for applied and experimental research	9
How Big is the Gig? The Extensive Margin, The Intensive Margin, and The Hidden Margin	9
Has COVID-19 induced labor market mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK	9
Job polarization and the declining quality of knowledge workers: Evidence from the UK and Germany	9
Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?	9
Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?	9
Laws, educational outcomes, and returns to schooling evidence from the first wave of U.S. state compulsory attendance laws	9
Employment discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a field experiment	9
Economic conditions and the health of newborns: Evidence from comprehensive register data	9
Counterfactual quantile decompositions with selection correction taking into account Huber/Melly (2015): An application to the German gender wage gap	8
Labour market effects of reducing the gender gap in parental leave entitlements	8

Recruiting intensity and hiring practices: Cross-sectional and time-series evidence	8
Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?	8
Does more free childcare help parents work more?	8
Transgender employment and gender marker laws	8
The gender aspect of migrants’ assimilation in Europe	8
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful	8
Open labor markets and Firms’ substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers	8
Financial incentives, fertility and early life child outcomes	8
Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation	8
Trade Shocks and Firms Hiring Decisions: Evidence from Vacancy Postings of Chinese Firms in the Trade War	8
CPS Nonresponse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Explanations, Extent, and Effects	8
Losing in a boom: Long-term consequences of a local economic shock for female labour market outcomes	8
The value of specific skills under shock: High risks and high returns	8
The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect	7
Does solo self-employment serve as a ‘stepping stone’ to employership?	7
The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession: Evidence from the Asian financial crisis	7
A babel of web-searches: Googling unemployment during the pandemic	7
The Value of Foreign Language Skills in the German Labor Market	7
Short- and long-term effects of class assignment: Evidence from a flagship university in Brazil	7
How much does degree choice matter?	7
Parental Leave Policy and Long-run Earnings of Mothers	7
Technology and the labor market	7
For better or worse? – The effects of physical education on child development	7
The gendered effects of droughts: Production shocks and labor response in agriculture	7
How educational choices respond to large labor market shocks: Evidence from a natural experiment	7
ICT capital–skill complementarity and wage inequality: Evidence from OECD countries	7
Perceived returns to job search	7
Biased technological change and employment reallocation	7
Stepping-stone effect of atypical jobs: Could the least employable reap the most benefits?	7
Do neighbors help finding a job? Social networks and labor market outcomes after plant closures	7
The unemployed with jobs and without jobs	7
Citizenship and integration	6
A decomposition of labor earnings growth: Recovering Gaussianity?	6
Locked out? China’s health insurance scheme and internal migration	6
Intra-firm hierarchies and gender gaps	6
Immigration and the Tower of Babel: Using language barriers to identify individual labor market effects of immigration	6
The effects of a trade shock on gender-specific labor market outcomes in Brazil	6
Teacher turnover: Effects, mechanisms and organisational responses	6
Fertility as a driver of maternal employment	6
Parental leave, household specialization and children’s well-being	6
Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? A discrete choice experiment	6
Gig-jobs: Stepping stones or dead ends?	6
Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes	6
The effects of equal pay laws on firm pay premiums: Evidence from Chile	6
Linguistic distance, networks and migrants’ regional location choice	6
Are they all like Bill, Mark, and Steve? The education premium for entrepreneurs	6
Minimum wage and financially distressed firms: Another one bites the dust	6
Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off: Impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy	6
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Peer diversity, college performance and educational choices	6
High skilled immigration and the market for skilled labor: The role of occupational choice	6
Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage	6
Why do women ask for less?	6
Income support, employment transitions and well-being	6
Occupational Regulation, Institutions, and Migrants’ Labor Market Outcomes	6
Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples	6
Labour force participation and job polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession	6
Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? The case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed	6
Heterogeneous effects of poverty on attention	6
Convergence over time or not? U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2000–2019	6
Buy flexible, pay more: The role of temporary contracts on wage inequality	6
Explaining Demographic Heterogeneity in Cyclical Unemployment	6
Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?	6
The effects of a temporary migration shock: Evidence from the Arab Spring migration through Italy	6