OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Labour Economics is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy	129
Suspended from work and school? Impacts of layoff events and unemployment insurance on student disciplinary incidence	82
Employment discrimination and labor market protections for sexual minorities in Brazil	75
Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea—Retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy	63
The effectiveness of fiscal stimuli for working parents	53
Effects of workload allocation per course on students’ academic outcomes: Evidence from STEM degrees	51
Parental allowance increase and labor supply: Evidence from a Czech reform	48
Editorial Board	48
The effect of the public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages	43
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
Labour market institutions and long term adjustments to health shocks: Evidence from Italian administrative records	35
The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities	35
Adviser connectedness and placement outcomes in the economics job market	31
Gender differences in the effectiveness of hiring subsidies for young unemployed	29
Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades	27
Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden	27
Technology and the labor market	26
Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?	25
How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment?	25
Youth disconnection during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions	23
Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? The impact of grandparents on Children's academic performance	23
Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism	23
Employee entrepreneurship and signaling role of corporate venturing decisions	23
Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences	22

Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment	22
Influence in economics and aging	22
Employment and Wage Consequences of Flexible Wage Components	22
Train drain? Access to foreign workers and firms’ provision of training	21
Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation	21
Working more for more and working more for less: Labor supply in the gain and loss domains	21
Perceived returns to job search	20
Editorial Board	20
The gray zone: How not imposing a strict lockdown at the beginning of a pandemic can cost many lives	20
The uneven effects of conditional cash transfers on women and men	20
Migration, housing constraints, and inequality: A quantitative analysis of China	19
On the road to social mobility? Affirmative action and major choice	19
The labor market impacts of ridesharing on American Cities	19
Persistence and seasonal long memory in unemployment in the United States	19
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market	19
The effect of area-level waiting times for psychological therapies on individual-level labour market outcomes	19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-great recession entrants: Evidence from Mexico	19
Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits	19
The decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data	19
Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies: The Londö public works in the Central African Republic	19
Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage changes: Experimental evidence from an online labor market	18
Occupational choice, human capital and learning: A multi-armed bandit approach	18
Women as breadwinners: A multifaceted relocation program and women’s labour market outcomes	17
Working from home after COVID-19: Evidence from job postings in 20 countries	17
The impact of absent co-workers on productivity in teams	17
Does employment protection unprotect workers? The labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru	16
Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap	16
Economic sanctions and informal employment	16
Gendered language in job ads and applicant behavior: Evidence from India	16
Gender differences in reservation wages: New evidence for Germany	15
Performance pay for private program providers and impact on participants: A field experiment with employment services in Norway	15
Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap	15
Social networks and job referrals in recruitment	15
Programs of study and earnings dynamics	15
Local labor markets and job match quality: Teachers	15
Grand-parenthood and retirement	14
Job ladders and labour market assimilation of immigrants	14
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 law	14
Immigration and labour market flows	14
Working hours and employee health: Evidence from China's workweek reduction policy	13
An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial	13
Search and reallocation in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK	13
Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy	13
Local changes in intergenerational mobility	13
Mandatory activation of welfare recipients: Less time, less crime?	13
Gender homophily in job referrals: Evidence from a field study among university students	13
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 Board	13

Who will work on Sunday? The winners and losers of Sunday laws relaxation	12
Retirement coordination and leisure complementarity	12
The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe	12
The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market: Evidence from World War II in Japan	12
Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? – Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden	12
Parental job loss and children’s career choices	12
The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers	12
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful	12
The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities	12
Discrimination against lesbian and gay job seekers: An artefactual field experiment in urban Ecuador	12
Economic shocks and skill acquisition: Evidence from a national online learning platform at the onset of COVID-19	12
Pension reforms and couples’ labour supply decisions	12
Inequality in pension contribution gaps1	11
Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium	11
Why does temporary work increase disability insurance inflow?	11
Community colleges and careers: Evidence from nursing school lotteries	11
Labour market impacts of the China shock: Why the tide of Globalisation did not lift all boats	11
Reassessing classification errors in the analysis of labor market dynamics	11
Short-time work and unionization	11
Informal housing clearance, housing market, and labor supply	11
Deunionization and skills	11
Disentangling structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change	11
Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups	11
How accurately are household surveys measuring the LGBT population in Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment	10
Golfing CEOs	10
The intergenerational correlation of employment: Mothers as role models?	10
Male and female selection effects on gender wage gaps in three countries	10
Cut off from new competition: Threat of entry and quality of primary care	10
Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model	10
The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship	10
The supply of nursing labor in French hospitals: Outflows, part-time work and motherhood	10
Earnings expectations of “First-in Family” university students and their role for major choice	10
Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts	9
Train or hire? Labour immigration and firms’ investments in the skilling of workers	9
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals	9
Being a frontline worker in a health emergency: Healthcare workers’ absences and health during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Import Shocks and Gendered Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Mexico	9
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 inflows	8
Television and family demography: Evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany	8
Does the identity of leaders matter for education? Evidence from the first black governor in the US	8
Mortality risk, perception, and human capital investments: The legacy of landmines in Cambodia	8
What can we learn about the effect of mental health on labor market outcomes under weak assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY79	8
Does immigration affect native wages? A meta-analysis	8
Working life and human capital investment: Causal evidence from a pension reform	8
The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments	8
Editorial Board	8
Estimating the effect of working from home on parents’ division of childcare and housework: A new panel IV approach	8
Assessing data from summary questions about earnings and income	8
Gender mix and team performance: Differences between exogenously and endogenously formed teams	8
LGBT+ persons and homophobia prevalence across job sectors: Survey evidence from Mexico	8
Drill, baby, drill: Natural resource shocks and fertility in Indonesia	8
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees	8
Estimating heterogeneous effects: Applications to labor economics	8
The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers’ employment	8
Improving children's foundational learning through community-school participation: Experimental evidence from rural India	8
Distributional effects of education on mental health	8
Not the right time for children: Unemployment, fertility, and abortion	8
Activating the long-term inactive: Labor market and mental health effects	8
Decomposing the exporter wage gap: Selection or differential returns?	8
Disentangling the Effects of Large Minimum Wage and VAT Changes on Prices: Evidence from Mexico	8
Robots and labor in nursing homes	8
The effects of negative labor market conditions at entry: Evidence from the 2004–05 NHL lockout	8
The role of tasks, contractual arrangements, and job composition in explaining the dynamics of wage inequality: Evidence from France	7
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases	7
Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK	7
Replacing labour with capital: Evidence from aggregate mobility shocks	7
Knowledge economy, internal migration, and local labour markets	7
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 Change	7
Effects of team diversity on individual performance and voice: A field experiment of group composition by gender and language	7
The effects of Covid-19 on couples’ job tenures: Mothers have it worse	7
The impact of flexibility at work on fertility	7
Monopsony in academia and the gender pay gap: Evidence from California	7
What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?	7
Worker flows and reallocation during the recovery	7
Incentives and latent shirking	7
Soft-skills, networking, and workforce entry: Impacts of a training program for recent graduates in Rwanda	7
Citizenship and integration	7