Labour Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Labour Economics is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy132
Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence70
Employment discrimination and labor market protections for sexual minorities in Brazil53
Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea—Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy52
Effects of workload allocation per course on students’ academic outcomes: Evidence from STEM degrees50
Parental allowance increase and labor supply: Evidence from a Czech reform45
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The effect of the public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages39
The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities36
Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market35
Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades33
Gender differences in the effectiveness of hiring subsidies for young unemployed29
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic28
Labour market institutions and long term adjustments to health shocks: Evidence from Italian administrative records27
Youth disconnection during the COVID-19 pandemic26
Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions26
Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism26
Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden26
Employment and Wage Consequences of Flexible Wage Components25
Influence in economics and aging25
Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences25
Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation24
Train drain? Access to foreign workers and firms’ provision of training24
Employee entrepreneurship and signaling role of corporate venturing decisions23
Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment22
How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment?22
Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance21
Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?21
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The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men20
Working more for more and working more for less: Labor supply in the gain and loss domains20
Persistence and seasonal long memory in unemployment in the United States19
The gray zone: How not imposing a strict lockdown at the beginning of a pandemic can cost many lives19
On the road to social mobility? Affirmative action and major choice19
The decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data19
The labor market impacts of ridesharing on American Cities19
Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies: The Londö public works in the Central African Republic19
Perceived returns to job search19
Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits18
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-great recession entrants: Evidence from Mexico18
The impact of absent co-workers on productivity in teams18
Economic sanctions and informal employment18
Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap17
Working from home after COVID-19: Evidence from job postings in 20 countries17
Does employment protection unprotect workers? The labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru17
Occupational choice, human capital and learning: A multi-armed bandit approach17
Women as breadwinners: A multifaceted relocation program and women’s labour market outcomes16
The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes16
Gendered language in job ads and applicant behavior: Evidence from India16
Migration, housing constraints, and inequality: A quantitative analysis of China16
Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage changes: Experimental evidence from an online labor market16
Performance pay for private program providers and impact on participants: A field experiment with employment services in Norway15
Corrigendum to “Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the COVID-19 pandemic” [Labour Economics 96 (2025) 102727]15
Programs of study and earnings dynamics15
Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap15
Local labor markets and job match quality: Teachers15
Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany15
Grand-parenthood and retirement15
Job ladders and labour market assimilation of immigrants14
The gender pay gap revisited: Does machine learning offer new insights?14
Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-Country evidence on “She-Cessions”14
Working hours and employee health: Evidence from China's workweek reduction policy14
Social networks and job referrals in recruitment14
Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy14
Labor costs and domestic value added: Evidence based on the China’s new Labor Contract law14
Immigration and labour market flows14
Economic shocks and skill acquisition: Evidence from a national online learning platform at the onset of COVID-1914
Mandatory activation of welfare recipients: Less time, less crime?13
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful13
Editorial Board13
An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial13
Local changes in intergenerational mobility13
The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers13
The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities12
Discrimination against lesbian and gay job seekers: An artefactual field experiment in urban Ecuador12
Retirement coordination and leisure complementarity12
Gender homophily in job referrals: Evidence from a field study among university students12
Pension reforms and couples’ labour supply decisions12
Search and reallocation in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK12
Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? – Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden12
Parental job loss and children’s career choices12
The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market: Evidence from World War II in Japan12
Who will work on Sunday? The winners and losers of Sunday laws relaxation12
The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe12
Why does temporary work increase disability insurance inflow?11
Earnings expectations of “First-in Family” university students and their role for major choice11
Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium11
Community colleges and careers: Evidence from nursing school lotteries11
Informal housing clearance, housing market, and labor supply11
Deunionization and skills11
Inequality in pension contribution gaps111
Reassessing classification errors in the analysis of labor market dynamics11
Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups10
Short-time work and unionization10
How accurately are household surveys measuring the LGBT population in Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment10
The intergenerational correlation of employment: Mothers as role models?10
Early predictors of racial disparities in criminal justice involvement10
The supply of nursing labor in French hospitals: Outflows, part-time work and motherhood10
Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model10
Disentangling structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change10
Labour market impacts of the China shock: Why the tide of Globalisation did not lift all boats10
Decomposing the exporter wage gap: Selection or differential returns?9
What can we learn about the effect of mental health on labor market outcomes under weak assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY799
Golfing CEOs9
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals9
Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from a pension reform9
LGBT+ persons and homophobia prevalence across job sectors: Survey evidence from Mexico9
The effects of negative labor market conditions at entry: Evidence from the 2004–05 NHL lockout9
Import Shocks and Gendered Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Mexico9
The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship9
Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Disentangling the Effects of Large Minimum Wage and VAT Changes on Prices: Evidence from Mexico9
Does immigration affect native wages? A meta-analysis9
Male and female selection effects on gender wage gaps in three countries9
Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and quality of primary care9
Train or hire? Labour immigration and firms’ investments in the skilling of workers9
Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts9
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Estimating heterogeneous effects: Applications to labor economics8
Television and family demography: Evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany8
Improving children's foundational learning through community-school participation: Experimental evidence from rural India8
Filling in the blanks: How does information about the Swedish EITC affect labour supply?8
Distributional effects of education on mental health8
The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows8
Robots and labor in nursing homes8
The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers’ employment8
The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments8
Does the identity of leaders matter for education? Evidence from the first black governor in the US8
Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects8
Gender mix and team performance: Differences between exogenously and endogenously formed teams8
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees8
What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?8
Mortality risk, perception, and human capital investments: The legacy of landmines in Cambodia8
Trade Unions and the Process of Technological Change8
Not the right time for children: Unemployment, fertility, and abortion8
Assessing data from summary questions about earnings and income8
The role of tasks, contractual arrangements, and job composition in explaining the dynamics of wage inequality: Evidence from France7
Effects of team diversity on individual performance and voice: A field experiment of group composition by gender and language7
The effects of Covid-19 on couples’ job tenures: Mothers have it worse7
Monopsony in academia and the gender pay gap: Evidence from California7
Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda7
Estimating the effect of working from home on parents’ division of childcare and housework: A new panel IV approach7
Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery7
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]7
Incentives and latent shirking7
Replacing labour with capital: Evidence from aggregate mobility shocks7
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases7
Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK7
Knowledge economy, internal migration, and local labour markets7
Trading pay for pensions: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in the United Kingdom6
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Early retirement incentives and transition into informality6
How do wage setting institutions affect wage rigidity? Evidence from French micro data6
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Labour market outcomes of minimum wage changes: A behavioural perspective6
The impact of flexibility at work on fertility6
Citizenship and integration6
Can subsidies to permanent employment change fertility decisions?6
Specialists and generalists in adaptive organizations6
Recent research on labor supply: Implications for tax and transfer policy6
Making the right call: The heterogeneous effects of individual performance pay on productivity6
The labor market effects of competing and non-competing high-skill immigrants: Evidence from college majors6
Intergenerational disadvantage: Learning about equal opportunity from social assistance receipt6
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
Gender norms and the gender gap in higher education6
Good personality traits in bad times: Does conscientiousness mitigate the adverse effects of graduating in a recession?6
Is there discrimination against children of same-sex households? Evidence from an experimental study in Colombia6
Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market — An application to polarization5
Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital5
Job polarization and non-standard work: Evidence from France5
How IT-specialized majors pay off: Evidence from an IT industry shock5
Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans5
The causal effect of genetic variants linked to cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes5
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Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery5
Joining late, leaving early? Immigrant-native disparities in labor market exit5
Preferences for gender diversity in high-profile jobs5
The labor market impacts of employer consolidation: Evidence from Germany5
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Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant missionaries, local churches, and literacy in Colonial Korea5
Seasonality in U.S. disability applications, labor market, and the pandemic echoes5
Are ‘good’ firms, good for all employees?5
Corrigendum to “China’s labour market liberalization harmed women, but more so in regions with traditional gender norms” [Labour Economics 99 (2026) 102862]5
The effects of expanding access to mental health services on SS(D)I applications and awards5
Partner effects and collaborative learning5
Recent evidence on the “Economics of the Healthcare Workforce”: Preface to the Labour Economics Special Issue5
Do levy penalties boost disability hiring in SMEs? Evidence from a Japanese quota reform5
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Asymmetric labor supply responses to tax rate reform: Experimental evidence5
Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks4
Understanding the racial employment gap: The role of sectoral shifts4
If (my) 6 was (your) 9. Reporting heterogeneity in student evaluations of teaching4
Effects of school displacement on academic achievement and wellbeing of ethnic minorities4
Corrigendum to “The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities” [Labour Economics, 87, 2024, 102509]4
Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process4
First generation college students and peer effects4
The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-194
Long-run impacts of fertility restriction policy on China’s gender gap in career advancement4
Best and brightest? The impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US4
The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: Evidence from English women4
Education-oriented and care-oriented preschools: Implications on child development4
The value of school choice opportunities4
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The effect of the language of instruction on academic performance4
Preference-choice mismatch and university dropout4
Peer effects in parental leave: Evidence from Italy4
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK4
Paying (and Paving) my way: Extra-class participation and rent extraction4
Peer effects on college choice: Evidence from affirmative action in China4
Labor market dynamics in a highly competitive industry4
Job-to-job transitions, job finding and the ins of unemployment4
Why do you like or dislike your job?4
Market-oriented reforms and human capital reallocation in urban China: A gender perspective4
Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job4
Can work sharing sustain employment during economic downturn? Evidence from Brazil4
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Specialists or generalists? Cross-industry mobility and wages4
Incentive contracts with pay gap and pay equity4
Why are marginal workers unemployed: Low productivity or high opportunity cost of employment?4
Minimum wage and self-employed business owners: Evidence from South Korea3
Job loss, consumption insurance, and household time allocation3
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Impacts of criminal records on labor market outcomes: Theoretical and empirical evidence from Denmark3
A senior doctor like me: Gender match and occupational choice3
Temperament traits and economic preferences predict occupational choice beyond human capital variables3
Are shorter cumulative temporary contracts worse stepping stones? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment3
Grading bias and the leaky pipeline in economics: Evidence from Stockholm University3
Corrigendum to “The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions” [Labor Economics, Volume 85, 2023, 102433]3
Has COVID-19 induced labor market mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK3
Search, unemployment, and the Beveridge curve: Experimental evidence3
Gender identity, labor market outcomes, and socioeconomic status: Evidence from Chile3
Government regulation and wages: Evidence from continuing coverage mandates3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health management: Evidence from individual-level universal insurance claims data3
Robots for economic development3
Is being competitive always an advantage? Competitiveness, gender, and labour market success3
Intergenerational transmission of time preferences: Evidence from rural Thailand3
A cycle or a tunnel? A study on unemployment and low-pay dynamics in Italy3
Semiparametric distribution regression with instruments and monotonicity3
National identity and the integration of second-generation immigrants3
Unlucky migrants: Scarring effect of recessions on the assimilation of the foreign born3
Migration barrier relaxation and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the hukou reform in China3
Women in the pipeline: A dynamic decomposition of firm pay gaps3
Human after all: Occupations at the core of AI adoption3
Month-of-birth effects on skills and skill formation3
Gender-age differences in hiring rates and prospective wages—Evidence from job referrals to unemployed workers3
Mental health around pregnancy and child development from early childhood to adolescence3
Job search under changing labour taxes3
Are households Pareto efficient? A test based on multiple job holding3
Expectation formation and learning in the labour market with on-the-job search and Nash bargaining3
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