New Economics Papers (from NEP)
The following works presented are external working papers published to the NEP-LMA and NEP-LAB RSS feeds. This content is provided to show a wider view of research being conducted across the areas of Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages, as well as Labour Economics. Works listed may have no relation to ACLMR or the ACLMR team and are published out of academic interest only.
Labour Markets
2025-07
Extreme Temperatures and Non-Work at Work
Understanding the determinants of worker effort is central, as even small changes in productivity can have significant implications for economic growth and labor market performance. This study examines…
2025-07
Determinants and Effects of Remote Work Arrangements: Evidence from an Employer Survey
Remote work arrangements are compelling examples of an organization’s ability to utilize digital technology. This study analyzes data from a representative survey of Atlantic Canadian employers to evaluate…
2025-08
Reskilling and Resilience
This paper shows that effective reskilling can have profound mental health benefits for workers and their partners. Using institutional variation in access to higher education after work accidents in…
2025
Discrimination Preferences
We reconsider discrimination preferences through moral lenses and conduct experiments to systematically investigate these preferences using representative UK samples. Specifically, we evaluate the distribution…
2025-07
Three Wages and Two Prices
Using annual observations on U.S. non-farm workers from the late 1940s to 2019, descriptions of the movements of nominal wages, real consumption wages, and real product wages are reported. The prices…
2025-07
An Estimated Model of Employer and Non-Employer Entrepreneurship
What motivates individuals to become entrepreneurs and create jobs? We develop and estimate a dynamic structural microeconometric model that accounts for both employer and non-employer entrepreneurs.…
2025-07
From Joint to Individual: The Distributional and Labour Supply Effect of Tax Individualisation in Ireland
This paper evaluates the redistributive and labour supply effects of transitioning from a joint to a fully individualised income tax system in Ireland. The current Irish tax system, which remains partially…
2025-07
Reducing the Digital Divide for Marginalized Households
Digital skills are increasingly essential for full participation in modern life. Yet many low-income families face a dual digital divide: limited access to technology and limited ability to use it effectively.…
2025-07
Employee Ownership and Promotive Voice: The Roles of Psychological Ownership and Perceived Alignment of Interests
Using a National Bureau of Economic Research dataset of employees of 14 United States companies with shared capitalism practices, we compare two prominent explanations of employee ownership’s influence…
2025-07
The Effect of the End of Hiring Incentives on Job and Employment Security
We analyse the long-term impact of hiring subsidies on both job and employment security. The subsidy that we examine was introduced in Italy through the 2015 Budget Law, with the goal of promoting open-ended…
2025-07
Reshaping the Economy? Local Reallocation Effects of Place-Based Policies
We study the effects of place-based policies on aggregate productivity using administrative data on projects co-financed by the EU in Italy linked to balance sheet data. We exploit quasi-experimental…
2025-04-16
Is Self-employment a Career Trap? A Large-Scale Field Experiment in the Labor Market
We conduct a large-scale experiment in the labor market using more than 8, 000 fictitious resumes to uncover the demand-side mechanisms behind the wage penalty for the self-employed. We find that self-employed…
2025-08
Monetary Policy and Informal Labor Markets
A predominant share of employment in EMDEs is in the informal sector. In 2019-2020, approximately 72% of total employment was in the informal sector in India, with casual employment comprising 22% and…
2025-07
Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI
Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work,…
2025-07-14
Selection in Surveys: Using Randomized Incentives to Detect and Account for Nonresponse Bias
We show how to use randomized participation incentives to test and account for nonresponse bias in surveys. We first use data from a survey about labor market conditions, linked to full-population administrative…
2025-08
Easing the Commute: The Impact of Affordable Public Transport on Apprentice Mobility
This paper examines how improved public transportation affordability, resulting from the introduction of the so-called Deutschlandticket, affected the commuting choices of newly commencing apprentices…
2025
Breaking Bias: Pathways to Reducing Discrimination
Discrimination remains a persistent challenge with significant moral and economic consequences. While extensive economics research has documented its existence, identifying effective strategies for reducing…
2025-08
Are Juries Racially Discriminatory? Evidence from the Race-Blind Charging of Grand Jury Defendants with and without Racially Distinctive Names
We implement five different tests of whether grand juries, which are drawn from a representative cross-section of the public, discriminate against Black defendants when deciding to prosecute felony cases.…
Labour Economics
2025-07
Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and Employment Duration
While extensive research on unemployment insurance (UI) has examined how benefits affect workers’ job search, little is known about how eligibility conditions shape firms’ hiring decisions. These…
2025-07
What is Happening to Unionization in Japan?
Official government estimates show a gradual decline in union density in Japan over several decades akin to that in other countries with decentralized bargaining structures. However, new evidence from…
2025-07
Immigration, Demand, Supply and Sectoral Heterogeneity in the UK Labor Market
The empirical migration literature often identifies the labor market effects of immigration using exogenous variation of migration concentration across sectors. However, this approach differences out…
2025
Rising Inequality, Declining Mobility: The Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility in Germany
This paper is the first to show that intergenerational income mobility in Germany has decreased over time. We provide estimates of intergenerational persistence for the birth cohorts 1968-1987 and document…
2025
Does Remote Work Reinforce Gender Gaps in (Un)Paid Labor?
I study how the rise in working from home (WFH) affects the gender division of paid and unpaid labor (caregiving, domestic tasks). Identification uses differences in individuals' exposure to the Covid-induced…
2025-07
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment of Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities
This study analyzes, for the first time, the effect of increases in the minimum wage on the labor market outcomes of working age adults with cognitive disabilities, a vulnerable and low-skilled sector…
2025-08
Who's in the talent pool? Understanding diversity in labour market entrants across England
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown that the UK has relatively low mobility compared to other countries and that this is, in part, driven by inequalities in access to elite occupations…
2025-07
Paths to Integration: Earnings, Skill Investments, and Outmigration Across Immigrant Admission Categories
We document substantial heterogeneity in labor market integration, skill investments, and outmigration across immigrant admission categories. Using newly available data on residence permits in Finland,…
2025-07
From Rural Schools to City Factories: Assessing the Quality of Chinese Rural Schools
The changing pattern of quality in China’s rural schools across time and province is extracted from the differential labor market earnings of rural migrant workers. Variations in rates of return to…
2025-07
Is Drug-Related Violence Fueling Emigration from Central America?
We study how drug-related violence affects emigration from Central America, a region with rapidly rising migration to the United States. Using multiple data sources, we apply an instrumental variables…
2025-08-15
Digitalization in Shaping Female and Male Entrepreneurial Potential
This study examines the impact of digitalization on the context shaping male and female entrepreneurial potential across 78 economies, utilizing the Female Entrepreneurship Index (FEI) and the Male Entrepreneurship…
2025-07
When Managers Choose: Gender Disparities in Employer Training Provision
We examine how gender shapes managers' decisions regarding on-the-job training using a discrete choice experiment embedded in a representative survey of German firms. While previous research has focused…
2025-07
The Time Cost of a Disability
We consider how a physical disability alters patterns of time use. A disability may raise the time cost of all activities; of some—making them differentially less worth doing; or it may make switching…
2025-07
Disconnecting Women: Gender Disparities in the Impact of Online Instruction
We study the impact of online instruction with a field experiment that randomly assigns 1, 344 university students to different proportions of online and in-person lectures in multiple introductory courses.…
2025
Antidepressant Treatment in Childhood
Mental health disorders tend to emerge in childhood, with half starting by age 14. This makes early intervention important, but treatment rates are low, and antidepressant treatment for children remains…
2025-08
The Social Lifecycle Impacts of Power Plant Siting in the Historical United States
This paper examines the relative contributions of siting decisions and post-siting demo-graphic shifts to current disparities in exposure to polluting fossil-fuel plants in the United States. Our analysis…
2025
Do Anti-immigration Attitudes Discourage Immigration? Evidence from a New Instrument
We investigate the effect of anti-immigration attitudes on immigration plans to Europe. We propose a new instrument for attitudes toward immigration, namely, the number of country nationals killed in…
2025
Brain Drain or Brain Dilution Tax: A Sending Country’s Perspective
I investigate how taxing immigrants and redistributing the collected funds as educational subsidies influence human capital accumulation and growth in the source economy. The analysis is performed in…
2025-05
Forest rights, dietary diversity and nutritional security of tribal communities: Evidence from India
India's indigenous communities (Schedule Tribes or STs) have historically relied on forests for their subsistence, livelihood and cultural identity. Despite this, the STs lacked formal rights to reside…
2025
Lessons for the FOMC’s Monetary Policy Strategy
The current 5-year review of the FOMC’s Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy provides an opportunity to assess the revisions made in 2020. I review the rationale behind the 2020…
2025
The Digital Second Shift: Gender Gap in Parenting App Usage in China
This paper examines gender disparities in parenting in the digital domain, using a novel dataset that records the gender composition of users across more than 6, 000 app-level observations in China. Two…
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