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Employment effects and fiscal spillovers of a public sector employment program 公共部门就业计划的就业效应和财政溢出效应

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102969

Eva Mörk, Lillit Ottosson, Ulrika Vikman

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Skills to equalise the bills: How perceived skills affect the gender wage gap of higher education graduates 平衡账单的技能：感知技能如何影响高等教育毕业生的性别工资差距

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102916

Nora Lorenz, Frauke Peter, Fabian Trennt

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Short time work during the COVID-19 pandemic – Worker level evidence from administrative data COVID-19大流行期间的短时间工作-来自行政数据的工人级别证据

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102929

Thomas Kruppe, Max Kunaschk

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Power and poverty: The distributional consequences of Walmart Supercenter openings 权力与贫困：沃尔玛超级中心开业的分配后果

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102927

Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin, Clemente Pignatti, Rafael Pintro-Schmitt

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Firm organization and worker outcomes: The role of occupational specialization 企业组织与工人产出：职业专业化的作用

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102940

Guido Matias Cortes, Diego Dabed, Ana Oliveira, Anna Salomons

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The effect of branching deregulation on finance wage premium 分支管制对金融业工资溢价的影响

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102925

Ahmet Ali Taşkın, Fırat Yaman

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Early predictors of racial disparities in criminal justice involvement 刑事司法参与中种族差异的早期预测

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102901

Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger, Derek Neal

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Specialists and generalists in adaptive organizations 适应性组织中的专家和通才

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102917

Kohei Takahashi

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Strategic or scarred? Disparities in college enrollment and dropout response to macroeconomic conditions 战略还是伤痕累累？宏观经济条件下大学入学率和辍学率的差异

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102928

Nadim Elayan-Balagué

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Refugee exposure and political backlash: Poland during the Russia–Ukraine war 难民曝光与政治反弹：俄乌战争期间的波兰

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Labour Economics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2026.102936

Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Ines Homburg, Sunčica Vujić

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