Journal of Labor Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Labor Economics is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies175
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples55
Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment45
Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading44
State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data35
Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice34
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects32
Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral STEM Programs30
School Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education Identification29
How Much Should We Trust Estimates of Firm Effects and Worker Sorting?29
Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?29
Adjusting to Globalization in Germany28
How Do Employers Use Compensation History? Evidence from a Field Experiment28
The Surprising Impacts of Unionization: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data28
Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes27
Does Banning the Box Help Ex-Offenders Get Jobs? Evaluating the Effects of a Prominent Example26
The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees24
Tots and Teens: How Does Child’s Age Influence Maternal Labor Supply and Child Care Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit?24
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction24
Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance23
Violence and Human Capital Investments23
The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China23
Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions21
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility21
Machine Labor21
Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 9420
The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty in the United States20
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?20
Why Do Women Earn Less than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators20
How Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits Affect Geographic Mobility18
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard18
Wages, Experience, and Training of Women over the Life Cycle17
Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match17
Constraints on Hours within the Firm16
Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor16
School Finance Equalization Increases Intergenerational Mobility16
Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses16
Changes across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences16
World War II, the Baby Boom, and Employment: County-Level Evidence15
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers15
How Costly Is Turnover? Evidence from Retail15
Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School Finance Reforms14
Reconciling Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment14
Changing College Choices with Personalized Admissions Information at Scale: Evidence on Naviance14
Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?14
The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act13
Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession12
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups12
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools12
Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining11
Motivating Employees through Career Paths11
Immigrant Earnings Assimilation in the United States: A Panel Analysis11
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization11
Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed11
Contagious Animosity in the Field: Evidence from the Federal Criminal Justice System11
Why Is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education11
Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size11
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? A Test Using Dual Jobholders10
US Permanent Residency, Job Mobility, and Earnings10
Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940–201510
Minimum Wages, Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald’s Restaurants10
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit10
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy9
Female Earnings Inequality: The Changing Role of Family Characteristics and Its Effect on the Extensive and Intensive Margins9
Less Competition, More Meritocracy?9
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement9
Labor Market Discrimination against Family Responsibilities: A Correspondence Study with Policy Change in China9
Seeing beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes9
Why Are Some Immigrant Groups More Successful Than Others?9
A Different Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century United States9
World War II and Black Economic Progress8
Name Your Friends, but Only Five? The Importance of Censoring in Peer Effects Estimates Using Social Network Data8
Education Transmission and Network Formation8
What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data8
The Cobb-Douglas Marriage Matching Function: Marriage Matching with Peer and Scale Effects8
Labor Market Quotas When Promotions Are Signals8
Estimating the Effect of School Quality on Mortality in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South8
What’s the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information on Employers7
Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment7
Childcare over the Business Cycle7
Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment7
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment7
Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation7
Testing Means-Tested Aid6
Network Connections and Board Seats: Are Female Networks Less Valuable?6
Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978–20176
The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy6
Holiday, Just One Day out of Life: Birth Timing and Postnatal Outcomes5
Does Remedial Education in Late Childhood Pay Off After All? Long-Run Consequences for University Schooling, Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Mobility5
The Consequences of Letter Grades for Labor Market Outcomes and Student Behavior5
Firm Decisions and Variation across Universities in Access to High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from Employer Recruiting5
The Employment Impact of the Provision of Public Health Insurance: A Further Examination of the Effect of the 2005 TennCare Contraction5
Firm Market Power, Worker Mobility, and Wages in the US Labor Market5
Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes5
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance5
Foreign Students in College and the Supply of STEM Graduates4
Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients4
Economic Outcomes of Strikers in an Era of Weak Unions4
Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay4
Sick Leave Cuts and (Unhealthy) Returns to Work4
Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital3
The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand3
The Relative Effectiveness of Teachers and Learning Software: Evidence from a Field Experiment in El Salvador3
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D3
Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting3
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments3
The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations3
When Crime Comes to the Neighborhood: Short-Term Shocks to Student Cognition and Secondary Consequences3
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality3
A Practical Proactive Proposal for Dealing with Attrition: Alternative Approaches and an Empirical Example3
Borrowing Constraints and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration3
The Effect of School and Neighborhood Peers on Achievement, Misbehavior, and Adult Crime3
Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees3
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills: Does Income Compensate?3
Matching Across Markets: An Economic Analysis of Cross-Border Marriage2
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence2
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia2
Long Social Distancing2
Labor Supply within the Firm2
Outsourcing, Occupationally Homogeneous Employers, and Wage Inequality in the United States2
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments2
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks2
The Slow Diffusion of Earnings Inequality2
Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women2
Personnel Practices and Regulation: How Firm-Provided Incentives Respond to Changes in Mandatory Retirement Law2
Grades and Employer Learning2
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning2
The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle2
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey2
Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers2
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?1
Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity1
The Efficacy of Tournaments for Nonroutine Team Tasks1
Understanding the Effect of Parental Education and Financial Resources on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income1
The Impact of Ford Motor Company’s Voluntary Equal Wage Policy on Detroit’s Wage Gap in the 1940s1
Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives1
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Midcentury South1
The Direct and Spillover Effects of a Nationwide Socioemotional Learning Program for Disruptive Students1
Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring1
Putting the Husband Through: The Role of Credit Constraints in the Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education1
Unobserved Endowments and Gender Differences in Marriage Matching1
Does Job Search Assistance Reduce Unemployment? Evidence on Displacement Effects and Mechanisms1
The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom1
The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap1
Household Mobility, Networks, and Gentrification of Minority Neighborhoods in the United States1
Rent Sharing within Firms1
Increasing Earnings Inequality: Reconciling Evidence from Survey and Administrative Data1
What Do Course Offerings Imply about University Preferences?1
A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences1
Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility1
The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning Throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador1
The Employment and Distributional Impacts of Nationwide Minimum Wage Changes1
The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major1
Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks1
Taxes, Childcare and Gender Identity Norms1
The Value of Student Debt Relief and the Role of Administrative Barriers: Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program1
Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants1
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor1
Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities1
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Family Welfare Receipt1
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