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Labour market outcomes of minimum wage changes: A behavioural perspective 最低工资变化对劳动力市场的影响：行为视角
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102824
Tong Wang
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Labor costs and domestic value added: Evidence based on the China’s new Labor Contract law 劳动力成本与国内增加值：基于新《劳动合同法》的证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102819
Dongmin Kong , Yifan Jin , Shasha Liu
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Minimum wage increases and vacancies 最低工资上涨和职位空缺
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102765
Marianna Kudlyak , Murat Tasci , Didem Tüzemen
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Deconstructing job search behavior 解构求职行为
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102822
Stefano Banfi , Sekyu Choi , Benjamín Villena-Roldán
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Recent evidence on the “Economics of the Healthcare Workforce”: Preface to the Labour Economics Special Issue 关于“医疗保健劳动力经济学”的最新证据：劳动经济学特刊的序言
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102801
Giuseppe Moscelli, Osea Giuntella, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Gender differences in preferences for flexible work hours: Experimental evidence from an online freelancing platform 弹性工作时间偏好的性别差异：来自在线自由职业平台的实验证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102813
Rakesh Banerjee , Tushar Bharati , Adnan M.S. Fakir , Yiwei Qian , Naveen Sunder
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Tuition fees and academic (in)activity 学费和学术活动
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102809
Johannes Berens , Leandro Henao , Kerstin Schneider
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Knowledge economy, internal migration, and local labour markets 知识经济、内部移民和本地劳动力市场
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102820
Agar Brugiavini , Marco Di Cataldo , Giulia Romani
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Breaking barriers: The impacts of employer exposure to immigrants 打破障碍：雇主接触移民的影响
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102805
Steven F. Lehrer , Louis-Pierre Lepage , Nuno Sousa Pereira
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Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy 退休、留任、招聘：来自联邦养老金政策的证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102812
Brock M. Wilson
{"title":"Retirement, retention, recruitment: Evidence from a federal pension policy","authors":"Brock M. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102812","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102812","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>I exploit a policy change for U.S. federal workers’ pension benefits to estimate the effect of pension generosity on worker retirement, retention and recruitment. The policy increased pensions by 16%–25%. I find there is a 30.3% decrease in job quits for permanent workers. However, there is little evidence that pension generosity has an effect on new hires. This suggests salience may play a role in how workers value pensions. Additionally, I find a large heterogeneous labor supply response to pension generosity. Altogether, this shows that pension generosity is effective in retaining workers and may have important implications for workforce planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102812"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362298","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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