Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102724
Matteo Picchio , Jan C. van Ours
{"title":"Corrigendum to “The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities” [Labour Economics, 87, 2024, 102509]","authors":"Matteo Picchio , Jan C. van Ours","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102724","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102724"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102729
Daniel Goller , Michael Lechner , Tamara Pongratz , Joachim Wolff
{"title":"Active labor market policies for the long-term unemployed: New evidence from causal machine learning","authors":"Daniel Goller , Michael Lechner , Tamara Pongratz , Joachim Wolff","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102729","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102729","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Active labor market programs are important instruments used by European employment agencies to help the unemployed find work. Investigating large administrative data on German long-term unemployed persons, we analyze the effectiveness of three job search assistance and training programs using causal machine learning. In addition to estimating average effects, causal machine learning enables the systematic analysis of effect heterogeneities, thereby facilitating the development of more effective personalized allocation strategies for long-term unemployed. On average, participants benefit from quickly realizing and long-lasting positive effects across all programs, with placement services being the most effective. For women, we find differential effects in various characteristics. Especially, women benefit from better local labor market conditions. The data-driven rules we propose for the allocation of unemployed people to the available labor market programs, which could be employed by decision-makers, show a potential to improve the effects by 6 - 14 percent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102729"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143891723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102725
Xiaoliang Yang , Peng Zhou
{"title":"Unveiling citation bias in economics: Taste-based discrimination against Chinese-authored papers","authors":"Xiaoliang Yang , Peng Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102725","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102725","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present evidence for taste-based discrimination against Chinese first authors in economic citations. We utilize a gravity model of citations and interpret the bias as a negative effect of “cultural distance”. After controlling for quality as well as author-, paper-, and journal-specific attributes, publications with a Chinese first author receive 14 % less citations. Coauthoring with non-Chinese does not mitigate the discrimination at all. While being affiliated with a US-based institute slightly reduces the bias by dampening the perceived “Chineseness”, it is not big enough to offset the discriminatory effect. Moreover, the COVID pandemic exacerbated the discriminatory effect. The forensic analysis narrowed down the source of discrimination to non-Chinese top economists from non-US affiliations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102725"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143867748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-13DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102716
Pierre Pora
{"title":"The supply of nursing labor in French hospitals: Outflows, part-time work and motherhood","authors":"Pierre Pora","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper quantifies the supply of nursing labor in French hospitals over the course of hospital nurses’ careers, using detailed longitudinal payroll tax data matched with birth certificates and census data. Over the first ten years of their careers, the nursing hours supplied to hospitals decrease by more than a third on average. This decline is primarily driven by hospital nurses leaving these positions, and to a lesser extent by transitions to part-time schedules within hospital nursing jobs. Nurses who leave hospital positions predominantly transition to other jobs, usually within the healthcare sector, rather than to non-employment. These job transitions are mostly unrelated to motherhood, whereas having children frequently leads mothers to switch to part-time schedules within hospital nursing jobs. In fact, without the effect of motherhood, the prevalence of part-time work among hospital nurses would be significantly lower. Finally, while hospitals offset the loss of nursing hours due to unanticipated staff departures by hiring new nurses, they struggle to compensate for nursing hours lost to part-time transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102716"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143886755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-12DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102717
Pablo Blanchard, Matias Brum, Paula Carrasco, Cecilia Parada, Ivone Perazzo
{"title":"Employment effects of a social and labour inclusion programme","authors":"Pablo Blanchard, Matias Brum, Paula Carrasco, Cecilia Parada, Ivone Perazzo","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102717","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we analyse the impacts of a social and labour inclusion programme, <em>Uruguay Trabaja</em> (UT) on employment and job quality through objective and subjective e measures. Using administrative data and a custom survey, we estimate the programme’s causal effects by exploiting the random assignment of the beneficiaries. Our findings suggest that participants in UT are more likely to secure formal employment and earn higher formal wages compared to non-participants, with indications of these effects enduring over time. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that UT contributes to increased labour market participation, and satisfaction across various dimensions of employment, overall job satisfaction, and general life satisfaction in the medium term. We also investigate the significance of two channels in driving the observed outcomes: the means of accessing employment and training opportunities. This study underscores the importance of implementing comprehensive programmes for vulnerable populations and emphasizes the value of considering medium-term impacts when assessing programme effectiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102717"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143850745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102718
Sangmin Aum , Bongseop Kim , Jungmin Lee
{"title":"Why do you like or dislike your job?","authors":"Sangmin Aum , Bongseop Kim , Jungmin Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102718","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102718","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the relative importance of non-wage job attributes, with a particular focus on corporate culture and overtime work. Using a discrete choice experiment with 3,026 wage workers in South Korea, we estimate the willingness-to-pay for a horizontal corporate culture, no overtime requirement, career development opportunities, and commuting time flexibility. We find that workers place the highest value on a horizontal corporate culture, followed by no overtime requirement. Using auxiliary data on working conditions from a nationally representative survey, we find that accounting for the non-uniform distribution of these non-wage job attributes across workers exacerbates compensation inequality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102718"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102696
Pia Heckl , Carolina Lennon , Alyssa Schneebaum
{"title":"How is global commerce affecting the gender composition of employment? A firm-level analysis of the effects of exposure to gender norms via trade and FDI","authors":"Pia Heckl , Carolina Lennon , Alyssa Schneebaum","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102696","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102696","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global firms have a higher share of female employees than domestic non-exporters. To explain this fact, this paper tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding gender (in)equality are transmitted from customers and investors to firms. We employ pooled cross-sectional data from 2007–2016 for around 28,000 firms in 104 different countries. We compare global versus non-global firms in the same market to study the influence of firms’ exposure to gender norms in commercial partner countries. The results show a race to the top for low- and mid-level jobs and the opposite for top managerial positions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102696"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143807638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102715
Rahi Abouk , John S. Earle , Johanna Catherine Maclean , Sungbin Park
{"title":"Promoting public health with blunt instruments: Evidence from vaccine mandates","authors":"Rahi Abouk , John S. Earle , Johanna Catherine Maclean , Sungbin Park","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102715","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102715","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the effect of mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare industry workers adopted in 2021 in the United States. There are long-standing worker shortages in the U.S. healthcare industry, pre-dating the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates on shortages is ex ante ambiguous. If mandates increase perceived safety of the healthcare industry, marginal workers may be drawn to healthcare, relaxing shortages. On the other hand, if marginal workers are vaccine hesitant or averse, then mandates may push workers away from the industry and exacerbate shortages. We combine monthly data from the Current Population Survey 2021 to 2022 with difference-in-differences methods to study the effects of state vaccine mandates on the probability of working in healthcare, and on employment transitions into and out of the industry. Our findings suggest that vaccine mandates may worsen healthcare workforce shortages: following adoption of a state-level mandate, the probability of working in the healthcare industry declines by 6 %. Effects are larger among workers in healthcare specific occupations, who leave the industry at higher rates in response to mandates and are slower to be replaced than workers in non-healthcare occupations. Findings suggest trade-offs faced by health policymakers seeking to achieve multiple health objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102715"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143948821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102712
Ying H. Chao
{"title":"A quantitative analysis of relaxing UI eligibility requirements","authors":"Ying H. Chao","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102712","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102712","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>From 1985 to 2019, administrative data indicates that 22% of unemployment insurance (UI) applicants were denied benefits annually due to eligibility requirements. This paper develops a quantitative equilibrium search model that incorporates realistic UI application processes and examines workers’ UI decisions and employment outcomes. Using this model, I analyze the role of eligibility requirements and the implications of incorporating them into policy evaluations. Relaxing earnings requirements increases take-up rates and generates a 4% welfare gain, benefiting low-income workers the most. In contrast, eliminating the separation requirement yields the highest welfare gain but also raises unemployment, highlighting the moral hazard effects of UI expansion. Lastly, a counterfactual analysis shows that ignoring UI eligibility leads to misleading predictions, overstating take-up rates and understating precautionary savings, underscoring the need to properly account for eligibility requirements in policy evaluations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102712"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143735130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour EconomicsPub Date : 2025-03-23DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102714
Mika Haapanen , Jaakko Pehkonen , Ville Seppälä
{"title":"Parental earnings response to children's job loss: Evidence from Finland","authors":"Mika Haapanen , Jaakko Pehkonen , Ville Seppälä","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102714","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how job displacement among adult children affects their parents’ earnings using population-based data from Finland. The research utilizes plant closures during the 1991–1994 recession as exogenous shocks to identify causal effects. Our results show that an adult child's job loss leads to increased parental earnings, particularly two to five years post-displacement, but the effect size gradually diminishes over time. The effects are pronounced among older parents and male parents. This study contributes to the literature on intergenerational economic spillovers and highlights the role of parents’ altruism and economic behavior in response to children's job displacement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"94 ","pages":"Article 102714"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}