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Gender norms and child penalties 性别规范和儿童惩罚
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102770
Radine Rafols
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Persistence and seasonal long memory in unemployment in the United States 美国失业的持续性和季节性长记忆
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102818
Guilherme de Oliveira Lima Cagliari Marques , Mateus Gonzalez de Freitas Pinto
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Firms, industries and the gender wage gap 公司、行业和性别工资差距
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102817
Shira Buzaglo-Baris
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Peer effects on college choice: Evidence from affirmative action in China 同伴效应对大学选择的影响：来自中国平权行动的证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102802
Mengying Peng , Xiaoyang Ye
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How IT-specialized majors pay off: Evidence from an IT industry shock IT专业如何获得回报：来自IT行业冲击的证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102785
Tianze Liu
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Divorce, parental conflicts and child skills: A story of selection 离婚、父母冲突和孩子技能：一个关于选择的故事
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102830
Gloria Moroni , Alexander Vickery
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Work less but stay longer — Mature worker responses to a flexibility reform 少工作，长时间工作——成熟员工对灵活性改革的反应
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102771
Erik Hernæs , Zhiyang Jia , John Piggott , Trond Christian Vigtel
{"title":"Work less but stay longer — Mature worker responses to a flexibility reform","authors":"Erik Hernæs ,&nbsp;Zhiyang Jia ,&nbsp;John Piggott ,&nbsp;Trond Christian Vigtel","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102771","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many consider that reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits will discourage labour supply among mature workers. This paper analyses a recent Norwegian pension reform that effectively lowered the eligibility age for retirement for some workers from 67 to 62, and we find that the above proposition might not be true. For these workers, the option of flexibly claiming from age 62 is introduced while the expected present value of benefits is held constant through actuarial adjustment of the periodic pension payments. This reform provides us with a unique opportunity to isolate the impact of increased flexibility on labour supply. We employ an event-study difference-in-difference approach to study the labour supply response (measured by number of weekly working hours as well as labour earnings) on the intensive and extensive margin. For those aged from 62 to 66, the reform leads to an increase in the labour supply at the extensive margin of 1.3 percentage points with a reduction in inflow to disability, and a decrease in the intensive margin of labour supply as measured by weekly working hours. In addition, a shift in the distribution of labour earnings further supports the finding that there is a decrease in the intensive margin of labour supply. Our findings thus suggest that increased pension flexibility could promote a gradual exit from the labour market, allowing for greater individual choice and positive welfare effects. This flexibility could also be an important component of broader pension reform.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102771"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144925893","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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Market-oriented reforms and human capital reallocation in urban China: A gender perspective 市场化改革与中国城市人力资本再配置：性别视角
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102811
Pengzhan Qian
{"title":"Market-oriented reforms and human capital reallocation in urban China: A gender perspective","authors":"Pengzhan Qian","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102811","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102811","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Until the early 1990s, jobs were assigned by the government in urban China, and education opportunities were limited. Under these constraints, talented people, especially women, may not have been educated or assigned to occupations that suited their abilities best, resulting in a misallocation of human capital. Over the years, market-oriented reforms, such as abolishing the job assignment system and expanding college education, have changed people’s occupational and educational choices significantly. This paper investigates the macroeconomic consequences of market-oriented reforms between 1990 and 2010. I build a quantitative model of occupational and educational choice with wedges to measure the degrees of misallocation. I find that market-oriented reforms have significantly reduced misallocations. Without any market-oriented reforms, 19% of young people in 2010 would have chosen different occupations. Consequently, the human capital of the young cohort would have been 1.6% lower, and economic output would have been 0.8% lower.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102811"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145320495","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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Asymmetric labor supply responses to tax rate reform: Experimental evidence 非对称劳动力供给对税率改革的响应：实验证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102810
Katharina Pfeil , Matthias Kasper , Sarah Necker , Lars P. Feld
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Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups 大学课程中的性别同伴效应：来自辅导小组的证据
IF 2.6 2区 经济学
Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102804
Yuxuan Zhang
{"title":"Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups","authors":"Yuxuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper analyzes the impacts of peer gender composition on students’ educational outcomes using administrative records from a world top-ranking university in Singapore.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> Leveraging a unique tutorial balloting system at the university, I explore the near-random variation in gender composition across different tutorial groups within the same course. A modified version of the commonly used balance test method from the literature is applied to demonstrate random fluctuations in gender ratio across tutorial groups. At the baseline, I found positive and significant impact of having more female peers on both male and female students’ academic performance. Nevertheless, there are substantial heterogeneity across student-level characteristics. This paper, in particular, also established a direct comparison of gender peer effects between quantitative and qualitative fields and found asymmetric impacts on male and female students. Overall, the results imply that the impacts of peer gender composition vary considerably across contexts and policy construction must account for this variability instead of aiming for a one-size-fits-all solution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48153,"journal":{"name":"Labour Economics","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102804"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145690610","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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