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JOLE’s contributors investigate various aspects of labor economics, including supply and demand of labor services, personnel economics, distribution of income, unions and collective bargaining, applied and policy issues in labor economics, and labor markets and demographics.
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
In support of Card and Angrist, the Journal of Labor...
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- The Health and Welfare Effects of Increases in Workers' Compensation Benefits
This paper estimates the causal impacts of workers’...
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Regional labor markets are obtained from Kropp and...
- Interactions With Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring
We study the effect of hearing cases alongside female...
- Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and The Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration
This article uses 1990 census data to study the effects of...
- The Consequences of Letter Grades for Labor Market Outcomes and Student Behavior
I study the consequences of letter grades serving as coarse...
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- 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Labour Economics is devoted to publishing international research on empirical, theoretical and econometric topics that are of particular interest to labour economists. In particular, Labour Economics gives due recognition to solid empirical work with a strong economic interpretation.
The class provides a systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics covered include wage and employment determination, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, among many others.
One of the most important ideas in labor economics is to think of the set of marketable skills of workers as a form of capital in which workers make a variety of investments. This perspective is important in understanding both investment incentives, and the structure of wages and earnings.
All NBER research is categorized into topic areas that collectively span the field of economics. View the Entrepreneurship Working Group page.
We document and dissect a new stylized fact about firm growth: the shift from labor to intermediate inputs. This shift occurs in input quantities, cost and output shares, and output elasticities. We establish this fact using German firm-level data and replicate it in administrative firm data from 11...
Bulow, Jeremy and Lawrence Summers (1986) “A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination and Keynesian Unemployment,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol 4, pp 376-415.
