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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs67
COVID-19 doesn’t need lockdowns to destroy jobs: The effect of local outbreaks in Korea60
The demand for AI skills in the labor market57
What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it54
Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets51
Concentration in US labor markets: Evidence from online vacancy data49
Work that can be done from home: evidence on variation within and across occupations and industries44
Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Field Experiment31
Working from home, hours worked and wages: Heterogeneity by gender and parenthood26
Intergenerational mobility across Australia and the stability of regional estimates25
Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe24
Shedding light on the shadows of informality: A meta-analysis of formalization interventions targeted at informal firms24
Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation-Evidence from workplace closures24
Effective like me? Does having a more productive mentor improve the productivity of mentees?23
Gender norms, fairness and relative working hours within households23
The dynamics of disappearing routine jobs: A flows approach20
Free college? Assessing enrollment responses to the Tennessee Promise program20
Industrial robots, Workers’ safety, and health20
Local labour demand and immigrant employment19
Labor market impacts of states issuing of driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants18
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?18
Employment protection and firm-provided training in dual labour markets18
Labor Market and Distributional Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age18
Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery18
Linguistic diversity and workplace productivity18
The impact of working conditions on mental health: Novel evidence from the UK17
Occupational routine intensity and the costs of job loss: evidence from mass layoffs16
Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value16
The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment15
Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands15
Home sweet home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK15
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals14
Social spillovers of China’s left-behind children in the classroom13
Partial automation and the technology-enabled deskilling of routine jobs13
Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility13
Job Tasks and Wages in Developed Countries: Evidence from PIAAC13
“No more credit score”: Employer credit check bans and signal substitution13
The unequal impact of ill health: Earnings, employment, and mental health among breast cancer survivors in Finland13
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market13
The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women's Labor Market Outcomes12
How vocational education made women better off but left men behind12
Parental proximity and earnings after job displacements12
Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects: A randomized field experiment12
Explaining the Labor Share: Automation Vs Labor Market Institutions12
Do female politicians matter for female labor market outcomes? Evidence from state legislative elections in India12
High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM12
Peers’ parents and educational attainment: The exposure effect11
The long-term effect of resource booms on human capital11
Peer effects in pension decision-making: evidence from China's new rural pension scheme11
Mission of the company, prosocial attitudes and job preferences: A discrete choice experiment11
Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-Country evidence on “She-Cessions”11
The economics of migration: Labour market impacts and migration policies11
Employment of R&D personnel after an educational supply shock: Effects of the introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland11
What cannot be cured must be endured: The long-lasting effect of a COVID-19 infection on workplace productivity.10
Disruptive Peers in the Classroom and Students’ Academic Outcomes: Evidence and Mechanisms10
Search design and online job search – new avenues for applied and experimental research9
Employment discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a field experiment9
Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education9
Employee training and firm performance: Evidence from ESF grant applications9
Time devoted to home production and retirement in couples: A panel data analysis9
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 laws9
Does low skilled immigration increase the education of natives? Evidence from Italian provinces9
Occupational Attainment and Earnings in Southeast Asia: The Role of Non-cognitive Skills9
The impact of SNAP work requirements on labor supply9
Does electricity drive structural transformation? Evidence from the United States9
How Big is the Gig? The Extensive Margin, The Intensive Margin, and The Hidden Margin9
Economic conditions and the health of newborns: Evidence from comprehensive register data9
Job polarization and the declining quality of knowledge workers: Evidence from the UK and Germany9
Employment effects of on-the-job human capital acquisition9
The impact of austerity measures on the public - private sector wage gap in Europe8
Open labor markets and Firms’ substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers8
Financial incentives, fertility and early life child outcomes8
Transgender employment and gender marker laws8
Trade Shocks and Firms Hiring Decisions: Evidence from Vacancy Postings of Chinese Firms in the Trade War8
CPS Nonresponse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Explanations, Extent, and Effects8
Losing in a boom: Long-term consequences of a local economic shock for female labour market outcomes8
The value of specific skills under shock: High risks and high returns8
Does more free childcare help parents work more?8
Labour market effects of reducing the gender gap in parental leave entitlements8
Recruiting intensity and hiring practices: Cross-sectional and time-series evidence8
Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?8
Has COVID-19 induced labor market mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK8
Counterfactual quantile decompositions with selection correction taking into account Huber/Melly (2015): An application to the German gender wage gap8
For better or worse? – The effects of physical education on child development7
Perceived returns to job search7
The gender aspect of migrants’ assimilation in Europe7
The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession: Evidence from the Asian financial crisis7
Short- and long-term effects of class assignment: Evidence from a flagship university in Brazil7
How educational choices respond to large labor market shocks: Evidence from a natural experiment7
Stepping-stone effect of atypical jobs: Could the least employable reap the most benefits?7
Biased technological change and employment reallocation7
Do neighbors help finding a job? Social networks and labor market outcomes after plant closures7
The unemployed with jobs and without jobs7
The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect7
Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?7
A babel of web-searches: Googling unemployment during the pandemic7
Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? The case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed7
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful7
How much does degree choice matter?7
Immigration and the Tower of Babel: Using language barriers to identify individual labor market effects of immigration6
Teacher turnover: Effects, mechanisms and organisational responses6
Peer diversity, college performance and educational choices6
High skilled immigration and the market for skilled labor: The role of occupational choice6
Gig-jobs: Stepping stones or dead ends?6
A decomposition of labor earnings growth: Recovering Gaussianity?6
The effects of equal pay laws on firm pay premiums: Evidence from Chile6
Linguistic distance, networks and migrants’ regional location choice6
Intra-firm hierarchies and gender gaps6
Heterogeneous effects of poverty on attention6
Buy flexible, pay more: The role of temporary contracts on wage inequality6
The gendered effects of droughts: Production shocks and labor response in agriculture6
Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?6
Income support, employment transitions and well-being6
Occupational Regulation, Institutions, and Migrants’ Labor Market Outcomes6
Locked out? China’s health insurance scheme and internal migration6
Technology and the labor market6
Are they all like Bill, Mark, and Steve? The education premium for entrepreneurs6
Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation6
Convergence over time or not? U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2000–20196
Explaining Demographic Heterogeneity in Cyclical Unemployment6
Citizenship and integration6
Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes6
Parental Leave Policy and Long-run Earnings of Mothers6
ICT capital–skill complementarity and wage inequality: Evidence from OECD countries6
Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples6
Youth employment, academic performance and labour market outcomes: Production functions and policy effects5
The effect of education on internal migration of young men and women: incidence, timing, and type of migration5
Minimum wage and financially distressed firms: Another one bites the dust5
Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off: Impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy5
Birthplace diversity and team performance5
The Value of Foreign Language Skills in the German Labor Market5
The effects of a temporary migration shock: Evidence from the Arab Spring migration through Italy5
Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment5
The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach5
International labor market competition and wives’ labor supply responses5
Effects of school closures on displaced students and future cohorts5
Salary History Bans and Wage Bargaining: Experimental Evidence5
The effects of a trade shock on gender-specific labor market outcomes in Brazil5
Gender bias and statistical discrimination against female instructors in student evaluations of teaching5
Fertility as a driver of maternal employment5
Can perceived returns explain enrollment gaps in postgraduate education?5
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK5
Do ability peer effects matter for academic and labor market outcomes?5
Poor little children: The socioeconomic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage5
The costs and potential benefits of occupational licensing: A case of real estate license reform5
Does solo self-employment serve as a ‘stepping stone’ to employership?5
Labour force participation and job polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession5
Early tracking, academic vs. vocational training, and the value of ‘second-chance’ options5
Parental leave, household specialization and children’s well-being5
The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers5
Job search during a pandemic recession: Survey evidence from the Netherlands5
Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile: Good for work incentives?5
Why do women ask for less?5
Computerization, obsolescence and the length of working life4
Labor market reforms and allocative efficiency in Italy4
Gender Matters in Language and Economic Behaviour: Can we Measure a Causal Cognition Effect of Speaking?4
A new measure of multiple jobholding in the U.S. economy4
Of housewives and feminists: Gender norms and intra-household division of labour4
A laptop for every child? The impact of technology on human capital formation4
Hollowing out of opportunity: Automation technology and intergenerational mobility in the United States4
Parents under stress: Evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany4
Evaluation of education and training impacts for the unemployed: Challenges of new data4
Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?4
Barrier to Entry or Signal of Quality? The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Minority Dental Assistants4
Gender, competitiveness, and task difficulty: Evidence from the field4
Culture, norms, and the provision of training by employers: Evidence from the Swiss language border4
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases4
Search and reallocation in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK4
Children’s socio-emotional skills: Is there a quantity–quality trade-off?4
Family first or the kindness of strangers? Foster care placements and adult outcomes4
Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis4
Polarization, employment and the minimum wage: Evidence from European local labor markets4
Distributional effects of welfare reform for young adults: An unconditional quantile regression approach4
Technological change and obsolete skills: Evidence from men’s professional tennis4
Earnings responses to disability insurance stringency4
Migration, housing constraints, and inequality: A quantitative analysis of China4
Recent research on labor supply: Implications for tax and transfer policy4
Intrahousehold property ownership, women’s bargaining power, and family structure4
Teacher evaluation for accountability and growth: Should policy treat them as complements or substitutes?4
Is the UK’s productivity puzzle mostly driven by occupational mismatch? An analysis using big data on job vacancies4
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Gender wage gaps and worker mobility: Evidence from the garment sector in Bangladesh4
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK4
Absence, substitutability and productivity: Evidence from teachers4
Language-in-education, language skills and the intergenerational transmission of language in a bilingual society4
Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? A discrete choice experiment4
Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium4
Relative performance feedback to teams3
The “mommy track” in the workplace. Evidence from a large French firm3
The effect of negative income shocks on pensioners3
Ageing and labor productivity3
The health-wealth nexus for the elderly: Evidence from the booming housing market in China3
The impact of only child peers on students’ cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes3
Labor market polarization in Britain and Germany: A cross-national comparison using longitudinal household data3
Mental health around pregnancy and child development from early childhood to adolescence3
Labour market institutions and long term adjustments to health shocks: Evidence from Italian administrative records3
Tastes for discrimination in monopsonistic labour markets3
Poor Job Conditions Amplify Negative Mental Health Shocks3
Earnings inequality and working hours mismatch3
Image concerns in ex-ante self-assessments–Gender differences and behavioral consequences3
The effect of the minimum wage on children’s cognitive achievement3
From employment to engagement? Stable jobs, temporary jobs, and cohabiting relationships3
Outsourcing recruitment as a solution to prevent discrimination: A correspondence study3
The decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data3
Officer differences in traffic stops of minority drivers3
The effects of the affordable care act dependent coverage mandate on parents’ labor market outcomes3
Servitization, Inequality, and Wages3
Asymmetries in the gender effect of high-performing peers: Evidence from tertiary education3
Cultural Assimilation and Ethnic Discrimination: An Audit Study with Schools3
Cross-country differences in preferences for leisure3
Youth disconnection during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Driver’s license reforms and job accessibility among undocumented immigrants3
The impact of paid family leave on household savings3
Individual labor market effects of local public expenditures on sports3
Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity3
Stung by pension reforms: The unequal impact of changes in state pension age on UK women and their partners3
Measurements of skill and skill-use using PIAAC3
The gender pay gap revisited: Does machine learning offer new insights?3
“Beauty too rich for use”: Billionaires’ assets and attractiveness3
Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?3
Vocational training for female job returners - Effects on employment, earnings and job quality3
Wages, teacher recruitment, and student achievement3
Government aid and child refugees’ economic success later in life: Evidence from post-WWII GDR refugees3
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees3
Does retirement affect voluntary work provision? Evidence from Europe and the U.S.3
Employer Search Behavior: Reasons for Internal Hiring3
Hiring an employee’s friends is good for business: Overcoming moral hazard with social networks3
University Admission and the Similarity of Fields of Study: Effects on Earnings and Skill Usage3
Do wages fall when women enter an occupation?3
Effects of stay-at-home orders on skill requirements in vacancy postings3
Post-Schooling off-The-Job training and its benefits3
Understanding ethnic hiring discrimination: A contextual analysis of experimental evidence3
Has U.S. employment really polarized? A critical reappraisal3
Long-lasting effects of a depressed labor market: Evidence from Mexico after the great recession3
Why do firms (dis)like part-time contracts?2
The attachment of adult women to the Italian labour market in the shadow of COVID-192
Learning by hiring, network centrality and within-firm wage dispersion2
Who competes with whom? Using occupation characteristics to estimate the impact of immigration on native wages2
Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis2
Earnings cyclicality of new and continuing jobs: The role of tenure and transition length2
Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain2
School integration of Syrian refugee children in Turkey2
Peer effects in an automated world2
Employment and Wage Consequences of Flexible Wage Components2
Regulating the timing of job search: evidence from the labor market for new college graduates2
Macroeconomic conditions and child schooling in Turkey2
Salary history bans and healing scars from past recessions2
Grading bias and the leaky pipeline in economics: Evidence from Stockholm University2
Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany2
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