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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy129
Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence82
Employment discrimination and labor market protections for sexual minorities in Brazil75
Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea—Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy63
The effectiveness of fiscal stimuli for working parents53
Effects of workload allocation per course on students’ academic outcomes: Evidence from STEM degrees51
Editorial Board48
Parental allowance increase and labor supply: Evidence from a Czech reform48
The effect of the public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages43
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic42
The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities35
Labour market institutions and long term adjustments to health shocks: Evidence from Italian administrative records35
Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market31
Gender differences in the effectiveness of hiring subsidies for young unemployed29
Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades27
Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden27
Technology and the labor market26
Youth disconnection during the COVID-19 pandemic25
Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?25
How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment?25
Employee entrepreneurship and signaling role of corporate venturing decisions23
Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions23
Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance23
Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism23
Influence in economics and aging22
Employment and Wage Consequences of Flexible Wage Components22
Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences22
Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment22
Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation21
Working more for more and working more for less: Labor supply in the gain and loss domains21
Train drain? Access to foreign workers and firms’ provision of training21
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The gray zone: How not imposing a strict lockdown at the beginning of a pandemic can cost many lives20
The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men20
Perceived returns to job search20
The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-great recession entrants: Evidence from Mexico19
Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits19
The decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data19
Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies: The Londö public works in the Central African Republic19
Migration, housing constraints, and inequality: A quantitative analysis of China19
On the road to social mobility? Affirmative action and major choice19
The labor market impacts of ridesharing on American Cities19
Persistence and seasonal long memory in unemployment in the United States19
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market19
Occupational choice, human capital and learning: A multi-armed bandit approach18
Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage changes: Experimental evidence from an online labor market18
The impact of absent co-workers on productivity in teams17
Women as breadwinners: A multifaceted relocation program and women’s labour market outcomes17
Working from home after COVID-19: Evidence from job postings in 20 countries17
Gendered language in job ads and applicant behavior: Evidence from India16
Does employment protection unprotect workers? The labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru16
Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap16
Economic sanctions and informal employment16
Social networks and job referrals in recruitment15
Programs of study and earnings dynamics15
Local labor markets and job match quality: Teachers15
Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany15
Performance pay for private program providers and impact on participants: A field experiment with employment services in Norway15
Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap15
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
Labor costs and domestic value added: Evidence based on the China’s new Labor Contract law14
Immigration and labour market flows14
Grand-parenthood and retirement14
Job ladders and labour market assimilation of immigrants14
Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy13
Local changes in intergenerational mobility13
Mandatory activation of welfare recipients: Less time, less crime?13
Gender homophily in job referrals: Evidence from a field study among university students13
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]13
Editorial Board13
Working hours and employee health: Evidence from China's workweek reduction policy13
An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial13
Search and reallocation in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK13
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
Economic shocks and skill acquisition: Evidence from a national online learning platform at the onset of COVID-1912
Pension reforms and couples’ labour supply decisions12
Who will work on Sunday? The winners and losers of Sunday laws relaxation12
Retirement coordination and leisure complementarity12
The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe12
The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market: Evidence from World War II in Japan12
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 asymmetric gender effects of high flyers12
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful12
Informal housing clearance, housing market, and labor supply11
Deunionization and skills11
Disentangling structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change11
Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups11
Inequality in pension contribution gaps111
Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium11
Why does temporary work increase disability insurance inflow?11
Community colleges and careers: Evidence from nursing school lotteries11
Labour market impacts of the China shock: Why the tide of Globalisation did not lift all boats11
Short-time work and unionization11
Reassessing classification errors in the analysis of labor market dynamics11
The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship10
The supply of nursing labor in French hospitals: Outflows, part-time work and motherhood10
Earnings expectations of “First-in Family” university students and their role for major choice10
How accurately are household surveys measuring the LGBT population in Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment10
Golfing CEOs10
The intergenerational correlation of employment: Mothers as role models?10
Male and female selection effects on gender wage gaps in three countries10
Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and quality of primary care10
Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model10
Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Import Shocks and Gendered Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Mexico9
Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts9
Train or hire? Labour immigration and firms’ investments in the skilling of workers9
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals9
Estimating heterogeneous effects: Applications to labor economics8
The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers’ employment8
Improving children's foundational learning through community-school participation: Experimental evidence from rural India8
Distributional effects of education on mental health8
Not the right time for children: Unemployment, fertility, and abortion8
Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects8
Decomposing the exporter wage gap: Selection or differential returns?8
Disentangling the Effects of Large Minimum Wage and VAT Changes on Prices: Evidence from Mexico8
Robots and labor in nursing homes8
The effects of negative labor market conditions at entry: Evidence from the 2004–05 NHL lockout8
Filling in the blanks: How does information about the Swedish EITC affect labour supply?8
The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows8
Television and family demography: Evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany8
Does the identity of leaders matter for education? Evidence from the first black governor in the US8
Mortality risk, perception, and human capital investments: The legacy of landmines in Cambodia8
What can we learn about the effect of mental health on labor market outcomes under weak assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY798
Does immigration affect native wages? A meta-analysis8
Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from a pension reform8
The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments8
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Estimating the effect of working from home on parents’ division of childcare and housework: A new panel IV approach8
Assessing data from summary questions about earnings and income8
Gender mix and team performance: Differences between exogenously and endogenously formed teams8
LGBT+ persons and homophobia prevalence across job sectors: Survey evidence from Mexico8
Drill, baby, drill: Natural resource shocks and fertility in Indonesia8
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?7
Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery7
Incentives and latent shirking7
Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda7
Citizenship and integration7
The role of tasks, contractual arrangements, and job composition in explaining the dynamics of wage inequality: Evidence from France7
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases7
Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK7
Replacing labour with capital: Evidence from aggregate mobility shocks7
Knowledge economy, internal migration, and local labour markets7
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
Trade Unions and the Process of Technological Change7
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
The impact of flexibility at work on fertility7
Monopsony in academia and the gender pay gap: Evidence from California7
Editorial Board6
The effects of expanding access to mental health services on SS(D)I applications and awards6
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
The origins of the gender pay gap: Education and job characteristics6
Good personality traits in bad times: Does conscientiousness mitigate the adverse effects of graduating in a recession?6
The labor market effects of competing and non-competing high-skill immigrants: Evidence from college majors6
Making the right call: The heterogeneous effects of individual performance pay on productivity6
Seasonality in U.S. disability applications, labor market, and the pandemic echoes6
The impact of working conditions on mental health: Novel evidence from the UK6
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Can subsidies to permanent employment change fertility decisions?6
Gender norms and the gender gap in higher education6
Is there discrimination against children of same-sex households? Evidence from an experimental study in Colombia6
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Early retirement incentives and transition into informality6
How do wage setting institutions affect wage rigidity? Evidence from French micro data6
Intergenerational disadvantage: Learning about equal opportunity from social assistance receipt6
Labour market outcomes of minimum wage changes: A behavioural perspective6
Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital5
Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market — An application to polarization5
Announcements5
Job-to-job transitions, job finding and the ins of unemployment5
Preferences for gender diversity in high-profile jobs5
The causal effect of genetic variants linked to cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes5
Joining late, leaving early? Immigrant-native disparities in labor market exit5
Do levy penalties boost disability hiring in SMEs? Evidence from a Japanese quota reform5
The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-195
Job polarization and non-standard work: Evidence from France5
How IT-specialized majors pay off: Evidence from an IT industry shock5
Asymmetric labor supply responses to tax rate reform: Experimental evidence5
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Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery5
Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans5
Paying (and Paving) my way: Extra-class participation and rent extraction5
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Recent evidence on the “Economics of the Healthcare Workforce”: Preface to the Labour Economics Special Issue5
The labor market impacts of employer consolidation: Evidence from Germany5
Partner effects and collaborative learning5
Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis4
Peer effects on college choice: Evidence from affirmative action in China4
Conquering Korea for Jesus: Protestant missionaries, local churches, and literacy in Colonial Korea4
Incentive contracts with pay gap and pay equity4
Preference-choice mismatch and university dropout4
Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job4
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Why are marginal workers unemployed: Low productivity or high opportunity cost of employment?4
The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: Evidence from English women4
Specialists or generalists? Cross-industry mobility and wages4
Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation4
Long-run impacts of fertility restriction policy on China’s gender gap in career advancement4
The effect of the language of instruction on academic performance4
Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process4
First generation college students and peer effects4
Understanding the racial employment gap: The role of sectoral shifts4
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK4
Labor market dynamics in a highly competitive industry4
Corrigendum to “China’s labour market liberalization harmed women, but more so in regions with traditional gender norms” [Labour Economics 99 (2026) 102862]4
Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks4
Education-oriented and care-oriented preschools: Implications on child development4
The value of school choice opportunities4
Peer effects in parental leave: Evidence from Italy4
Why do you like or dislike your job?4
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Are ‘good’ firms, good for all employees?4
Best and brightest? The impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US4
Minimum wage and self-employed business owners: Evidence from South Korea3
Job loss, consumption insurance, and household time allocation3
Mental health around pregnancy and child development from early childhood to adolescence3
Are shorter cumulative temporary contracts worse stepping stones? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment3
Women in the pipeline: A dynamic decomposition of firm pay gaps3
Month-of-birth effects on skills and skill formation3
Driver’s license reforms and job accessibility among undocumented immigrants3
A cycle or a tunnel? A study on unemployment and low-pay dynamics in Italy3
Robots for economic development3
The minimum wage and the wage distribution in Portugal3
Search, unemployment, and the Beveridge curve: Experimental evidence3
Gender identity, labor market outcomes, and socioeconomic status: Evidence from Chile3
Intergenerational transmission of time preferences: Evidence from rural Thailand3
Gender-age differences in hiring rates and prospective wages—Evidence from job referrals to unemployed workers3
Human after all: Occupations at the core of AI adoption3
A senior doctor like me: Gender match and occupational choice3
Expectation formation and learning in the labour market with on-the-job search and Nash bargaining3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health management: Evidence from individual-level universal insurance claims data3
Temperament traits and economic preferences predict occupational choice beyond human capital variables3
Does information disclosure affect the gender gap in bidding behavior? Empirical evidence from a natural experiment on a large online labor platform3
Unlucky migrants: Scarring effect of recessions on the assimilation of the foreign born3
Impacts of criminal records on labor market outcomes: Theoretical and empirical evidence from Denmark3
Migration barrier relaxation and entrepreneurship: Evidence from the hukou reform in China3
Is being competitive always an advantage? Competitiveness, gender, and labour market success3
The gender gap in top jobs – The role of overconfidence3
Job search under changing labour taxes3
The end of work feels near. How do people perceive the impact of digital technologies and automation?3
Effects of stay-at-home orders on skill requirements in vacancy postings3
Subjective unemployment expectations and (self-)insurance3
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