OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Labour Economics is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
The demand for AI skills in the labor market	88
COVID-19 doesn’t need lockdowns to destroy jobs: The effect of local outbreaks in Korea	67
Work that can be done from home: evidence on variation within and across occupations and industries	61
Industrial robots, Workers’ safety, and health	40
Working from home, hours worked and wages: Heterogeneity by gender and parenthood	38
Where have all the workers gone? Recalls, retirements, and reallocation in the COVID recovery	32
Home sweet home: Working from home and employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK	30
Shedding light on the shadows of informality: A meta-analysis of formalization interventions targeted at informal firms	30
The impact of working conditions on mental health: Novel evidence from the UK	29
Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe	28
Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation-Evidence from workplace closures	26
Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility	24
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?	23
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market	22
Occupational routine intensity and the costs of job loss: evidence from mass layoffs	22
The labour market outcomes of transgender individuals	21
Employment protection and firm-provided training in dual labour markets	20
Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value	20
Gender and employment in the COVID-19 recession: Cross-Country evidence on “She-Cessions”	20
Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands	19
Social spillovers of China’s left-behind children in the classroom	18
Partial automation and the technology-enabled deskilling of routine jobs	16
Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?	15
The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment	15
What cannot be cured must be endured: The long-lasting effect of a COVID-19 infection on workplace productivity.	15

The unequal impact of ill health: Earnings, employment, and mental health among breast cancer survivors in Finland	15
Mission of the company, prosocial attitudes and job preferences: A discrete choice experiment	14
Employee training and firm performance: Evidence from ESF grant applications	14
The economics of migration: Labour market impacts and migration policies	14
Does more free childcare help parents work more?	14
Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?	14
Non-cognitive peer effects in secondary education	14
The gendered effects of droughts: Production shocks and labor response in agriculture	13
High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM	13
Transgender employment and gender marker laws	13
Laws, educational outcomes, and returns to schooling evidence from the first wave of U.S. state compulsory attendance laws	13
Has COVID-19 induced labor market mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK	13
Explaining the Labor Share: Automation Vs Labor Market Institutions	13
The gender aspect of migrants’ assimilation in Europe	13
Peer effects in pension decision-making: evidence from China's new rural pension scheme	13
Occupational Attainment and Earnings in Southeast Asia: The Role of Non-cognitive Skills	13
Parental leave, household specialization and children’s well-being	12
The unemployed with jobs and without jobs	12
Technology and the labor market	12
Stepping-stone effect of atypical jobs: Could the least employable reap the most benefits?	12
Disruptive Peers in the Classroom and Students’ Academic Outcomes: Evidence and Mechanisms	12
Does electricity drive structural transformation? Evidence from the United States	12
How Big is the Gig? The Extensive Margin, The Intensive Margin, and The Hidden Margin	12
Trade Shocks and Firms Hiring Decisions: Evidence from Vacancy Postings of Chinese Firms in the Trade War	12
The long-term effect of resource booms on human capital	12
Parental Leave Policy and Long-run Earnings of Mothers	12
Employment effects of on-the-job human capital acquisition	11
Are remote work options the new standard? Evidence from vacancy postings during the COVID-19 crisis	11
Counterfactual quantile decompositions with selection correction taking into account Huber/Melly (2015): An application to the German gender wage gap	11
CPS Nonresponse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Explanations, Extent, and Effects	11
IT shields: Technology adoption and economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Coming of age: Watching young entrepreneurs become successful	10
ICT capital–skill complementarity and wage inequality: Evidence from OECD countries	10
Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation	10
Convergence over time or not? U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2000–2019	10
The Value of Foreign Language Skills in the German Labor Market	10
The value of specific skills under shock: High risks and high returns	10
A babel of web-searches: Googling unemployment during the pandemic	10
Open labor markets and Firms’ substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers	10
Does solo self-employment serve as a ‘stepping stone’ to employership?	10
The impact of SNAP work requirements on labor supply	9
How much does degree choice matter?	9
Vocational training for female job returners - Effects on employment, earnings and job quality	9
Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples	9
The asymmetric gender effects of high flyers	9
The effects of equal pay laws on firm pay premiums: Evidence from Chile	9
Losing in a boom: Long-term consequences of a local economic shock for female labour market outcomes	9
Labour market effects of reducing the gender gap in parental leave entitlements	9
Recruiting intensity and hiring practices: Cross-sectional and time-series evidence	9
The long shadow of a large scale education interruption: The intergenerational effect	9

Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain	9
For better or worse? – The effects of physical education on child development	8
From employment to engagement? Stable jobs, temporary jobs, and cohabiting relationships	8
Can peer mentoring improve online teaching effectiveness? An RCT during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Biased technological change and employment reallocation	8
Salary history bans and healing scars from past recessions	8
Recent research on labor supply: Implications for tax and transfer policy	8
The effects of a temporary migration shock: Evidence from the Arab Spring migration through Italy	8
Intrahousehold property ownership, women’s bargaining power, and family structure	8
Are they all like Bill, Mark, and Steve? The education premium for entrepreneurs	8
Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off: Impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy	8
Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium	8
Gig-jobs: Stepping stones or dead ends?	8
Citizenship and integration	8
Why do women ask for less?	8
Mothers at work: How mandating a short maternity leave affects work and fertility	8
The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession: Evidence from the Asian financial crisis	8
The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe	7
Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? A discrete choice experiment	7
Perceived returns to job search	7
Intra-firm hierarchies and gender gaps	7
Heterogeneous effects of poverty on attention	7
Teacher turnover: Effects, mechanisms and organisational responses	7
Absence, substitutability and productivity: Evidence from teachers	7
A new measure of multiple jobholding in the U.S. economy	7
Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment	7
Computerization, obsolescence and the length of working life	7
The effect of education on internal migration of young men and women: incidence, timing, and type of migration	7
The effects of a trade shock on gender-specific labor market outcomes in Brazil	7
Mental health around pregnancy and child development from early childhood to adolescence	7
Can perceived returns explain enrollment gaps in postgraduate education?	7
Has U.S. employment really polarized? A critical reappraisal	7
Labor Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires	7
Effects of school closures on displaced students and future cohorts	7
Minimum wage and financially distressed firms: Another one bites the dust	7
The gender pay gap revisited: Does machine learning offer new insights?	6
Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?	6
Understanding “Wage Theft”: Evasion and avoidance responses to minimum wage increases	6
What can we learn about the effect of mental health on labor market outcomes under weak assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY79	6
Do wages fall when women enter an occupation?	6
Birthplace diversity and team performance	6
Culture, norms, and the provision of training by employers: Evidence from the Swiss language border	6
How do wage setting institutions affect wage rigidity? Evidence from French micro data	6
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK	6
Do ability peer effects matter for academic and labor market outcomes?	6
Locked out? China’s health insurance scheme and internal migration	6
International labor market competition and wives’ labor supply responses	6
Access to language training and the local integration of refugees	6
Fertility as a driver of maternal employment	6
Explaining Demographic Heterogeneity in Cyclical Unemployment	6
Labor market reforms and allocative efficiency in Italy	6
Job search during a pandemic recession: Survey evidence from the Netherlands	6
The minimum wage and the wage distribution in Portugal	6
Occupational Regulation, Institutions, and Migrants’ Labor Market Outcomes	6
Trade Unions and the Process of Technological Change	6
Ageing and labor productivity	6
Gender differences in wage expectations and negotiation	6
Driver’s license reforms and job accessibility among undocumented immigrants	6
University Admission and the Similarity of Fields of Study: Effects on Earnings and Skill Usage	6
Public health insurance and employment transitions	6