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The pandemic push: Digital technologies and workforce adjustments 大流行病的推动：数字技术和劳动力调整
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102541
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Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits 残疾保险收入限额的使用和劳动力供应反应
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102583
{"title":"Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We use a reduction in the earnings limit in Hungary to evaluate this trade-off and examine screening and labor supply responses. We find that the policy changed selection into the program modestly but reduced labor supply on the intensive margin significantly. These findings suggest that the earnings threshold should be higher.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 102583"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537124000782/pdfft?md5=8cb04602322aa5208d66e87c6f5b8d10&pid=1-s2.0-S0927537124000782-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508497","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}
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Recruiting effective soldiers: Comparing Danish conscripts and volunteers deployed to peace-keeping and peace-enforcing missions 招募有效的士兵：比较丹麦应征入伍者和部署到维持和平与巩固和平特派团的志愿人员
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102587
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Parental allowance increase and labor supply: Evidence from a Czech reform 提高育儿津贴与劳动力供给：捷克改革的证据
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102589
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Everybody’s got to learn sometime? A causal machine learning evaluation of training programmes for jobseekers in France 每个人都有学习的时候？法国求职者培训计划的因果机器学习评估
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102573
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Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? – Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden 通过经济激励缩小育儿假的性别差距？- 瑞典性别平等奖金的证据
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102538
{"title":"Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? – Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102538","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102538","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using a regression discontinuity design, I evaluate an internationally unique policy in Sweden that rewarded equal division of parental leave with a cash bonus. The policy caused a small but significant reduction in the <em>difference</em> in days of leave between the parents. But since parent couples responded in different directions depending on the gender of the person with the lower uptake, the average effect on the <em>mother-father difference</em> in uptake was insignificant. Expectedly, given this result, the bonus did not affect average gender differences in earnings or indicators of later childcare responsibility. However, mothers who lowered their uptake of parental leave in response to the bonus displayed positive point estimates with regard to earnings while mothers who increased their uptake displayed negative estimates. This indicates that we cannot rule out a potential link between the length of parental leave and later allocation of time between home and market production. While the bonus did not affect average gender differences in parental leave and earnings, a key finding is that parents’ division of parental leave <em>can</em> be affected by economic incentives, suggesting that better calibrated bonus programs have potential to be useful policy tools.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 102538"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537124000332/pdfft?md5=9e04d63d053111ba964a9420ade77d95&pid=1-s2.0-S0927537124000332-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140268590","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}
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Medium-run effects of COVID-19 induced distant learning on students’ academic performance COVID-19 远程学习对学生学习成绩的中期影响
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102601
Barbara Pertold-Gebicka
{"title":"Medium-run effects of COVID-19 induced distant learning on students’ academic performance","authors":"Barbara Pertold-Gebicka","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102601","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102601","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Administrative data on bachelor students for 2014/15 to 2022/23 academic years are used to analyze their performance before, during, and – what is new in the literature – after the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis reveals that both low- and high-ability students of all affected cohorts received better grades during the semesters when teaching and examinations were delivered online, with the effect on low-ability students continuing through the first after-COVID academic year. However, improved grades contrast with lower graduation rates, especially among high-ability students. Detailed analysis of graduation patterns coupled with ECTS credits take-up analysis suggests that high-ability students were often discouraged from studying during the pandemic. For low-ability students, the negative influence of COVID-19 was compensated by the lenient grading policy that allowed them to pass the compulsory exams and continue studying.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 102601"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537124000964/pdfft?md5=d7c69d9124d02372a43ad9ae890b24d7&pid=1-s2.0-S0927537124000964-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141704264","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}
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Measuring the quality of a match 衡量比赛质量
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102568
{"title":"Measuring the quality of a match","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The quality of an employment match is a central concept in labor economics. It is relevant for evaluating the welfare impact of </span>labor market policies<span>, and for our understanding of labor market dynamics. This paper reviews the challenges associated with measuring match quality. We first review measures commonly used in the literature, their advantages, and drawbacks. We then present novel evidence from a survey sample of US employees where alternative measures were collected simultaneously. We show that while some of these measures correlate well, others do not. Finally, we present additional partial evidence on the correlations between measures based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), a substantially larger and nationally representative survey. The takeaway message is a word of caution regarding the interpretation of some of these measures and specific concerns regarding using wages and tenure as indicators of match quality.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 102568"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141524996","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}
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Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap 教师附加值与考试成绩的性别差距
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102588
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Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market — An application to polarization 摩擦性劳动力市场中的多维异质性和匹配--对两极分化的应用
IF 2.2 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102604
Joanne Tan
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