Report NEP-LAB-2026-05-04

This is the archive for NEP-LAB, a report on new working papers in the area of Labour Economics. Stéphanie Lluis (Stephanie Lluis) issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Christopher Campos & Pablo Muñoz & Alonso Bucarey & Dante Contreras, 2026, "College Major Choice, Payoffs, and Gender Gaps," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26024, Jan.
• Alessandra Casarico & Edoardo Di Porto & Joanna Kopinska & Salvatore Lattanzio, 2025, "Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25126, Nov.
• Sonia Bhalotra & N. Meltem Daysal & Louis Fréget & Jonas Hirani & Priyama Majumdar & Mircea Trandafir & Miriam Wüst & Tom Zohar, 2026, "Postpartum Depression and the Motherhood Penalty," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26015, Jan.
• Greta Morando & Lauro Carnicelli, 2026, "Parental Preferences and the Motherhood Penalty," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26101, Apr.
• Hanming Fang & Jiayin Hu & Miao Yu, 2025, "Maternity Leave Extensions and Gender Gaps: Evidence from an Online Job Platform," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2592, Nov.
• Michelle Hansch & Jan Sebastian Nimczik & Alexandra Spitz-Oener, 2025, "Workplace Connections and Labor Migration," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2577, Sep.
• Seema Jayachandran & Lea Nassal & Matthew J. Notowidigdo & Marie Paul & Heather Sarsons & Elin Sundberg, 2026, "Moving to Opportunity, Together," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26017, Jan.
• Jonas Cederlöf, 2025, "Reconsidering the Cost of Job Loss: Evidence from Redundancies and Mass Layoffs," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25156, Dec.
• Martin Nybom & Kjell G. Salvanes & José V. Rodríguez Mora, 2026, "Social Mobility in Western Countries: The Role of Families, Networks, and Institutions," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26054, Feb.
• Michael A. Clemens, 2026, "Immigrant-Native Wage Gaps and Immigration Tariffs: Examining the Case for an H-1B Visa Tax," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26072, Mar.
• Henrik Jacobsen Kleven & Camille Landais & Anne Sophie Lassen & Philip Rosenbaum & Herdis Steingrimsdottir & Jakob Egholt Søgaard, 2026, "Expanding Paternity Leave: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Gender Gaps," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12614.
• Simon Bensnes & Ingrid Huitfeldt & Edwin Leuven, 2026, "Reconciling Estimates of the Long-Term Earnings Effect of Fertility," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26043, Feb.
• Julia Baarck & Moritz Bode & Andreas Peichl, 2025, "Rising Inequality, Declining Mobility: The Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility in Germany," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25103, Nov.
• Alexander Ahammer & Martin Halla & Pia Heckl & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, 2025, "Reintegrating Older Long-Term Unemployed Workers: The Impact of Temporary Job Guarantees," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25160, Dec.
• Rudolf Winter-Ebmer & Karim Bekhtiar, 2026, "Mitigating Mobility Frictions: The Effect of Cash-on-Hand on Labor Mobility," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26099, Apr.
• Petter Lundborg & Johan Vikström & Negar Khaliliaraghi, 2026, "Gender Gaps Under Comparable Tasks: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26028, Jan.
• Suphanit Piyapromdee & Tasina Tawichsri & Nada Wasi, 2026, "Minimum Wages, Earnings, and Worker-Firm Sorting," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26060, Mar.
• Francesco Del Prato & Salvatore Lattanzio, 2026, "Workplace Injury Risk and the Gender Wage Gap," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26081, Mar.
• Peter Fredriksson & Dogan Gülümser & Lena Hensvik, 2025, "Outside Job Opportunities and the Gender Gap in Pay," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2571, Sep.
• Christian Dustmann & Sebastian Otten & Uta Schönberg & Jan Stuhler, 2025, "The Effects of Immigration on Places and People - Identification and Interpretation," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2586, Oct.
• Gabriella Conti & Rita Ginja & Petra Persson & Barton Willage, 2025, "The Menopause “Penalty”," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25141, Dec.
• Julien Grenet & Hans Grönqvist & Edvin Hertegård & Martin Nybom & Jan Stuhler, 2025, "How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crises," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25149, Dec.
• Alex Bryson & Mari Tanaka, 2025, "Unions in Developing Countries," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2569, Sep.
• Martin Olsson & Fredrik Heyman, 2026, "Long-Run Effects of Technological Change: The Impact of Automation on Intergenerational Mobility," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26047, Feb.
• Bloom, Nicholas & Dahl, Gordon & Rooth, Dan-Olof, 2026, "Work from Home and Disability Employment," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18555, Apr.
• Mirjam Bächli & Rafael Lalive & Michele Pellizzari, 2025, "Helping jobseekers with recommendations based on skill profiles or past experience: Evidence from a randomized intervention," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2589, Oct.
• Virginia Minni & Kieu-Trang Nguyen & Heather Sarsons & Carla Srebot, 2026, "Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26040, Feb.
• Maria Olsson & Oskar Nordström Skans, 2025, "The Rules of the Game: Local Wage Bargaining and the Gender Pay Gap," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25128, Nov.
• Santiago Hermo, 2025, "Collective Bargaining Networks and the Propagation of Shocks," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25157, Dec.
• Lukas Delgado-Prieto, 2026, "Worker Responses to Immigration Across Firms: Evidence from Colombia," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26041, Feb.
• Sonia Bhalotra & Manuel Fernández & Fan Wang, 2025, "The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap: An Equilibrium Model," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2593, Nov.
• Pedro C. Sant'Anna & Sulin Sardoschau & Aiko Schmeisser, 2026, "Perceptions of Race in the Labor Market," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26074, Mar.
• Manuel Bagues & Milan Makany & Giulia Vattuone & Natalia Zinovyeva, 2026, "Female Promotions and the Academic Pipeline: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26092, Mar.
• Jeremias Klaeui & Daniel Kopp & Rafael Lalive & Michael Siegenthaler, 2026, "Adapting to Scarcity: The Role of Firms in Occupational Transitions," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26020, Jan.
• Francine Blau & Isaac Cohen & Matthew Comey & Lawrence Kahn & Nikolai Boboshko, 2026, "The Minimum Wage And Inequality Between Groups," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26002, Jan.
• Ahmet Gulek, 2025, "Effects of Immigrants on Non-host Regions: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25109, Nov.
• Mikko Silliman & Juuso Mäkinen, 2026, "Life-cycle effects of public childcare: Evidence on children and their parents," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26004, Jan.
• Susan Athey & Lisa K. Simon & Oskar Nordström Skans & Johan Vikström & Yaroslav Yakymovych, 2026, "The Heterogeneous Earnings Impact of Job Loss Across Workers, Establishments, and Markets," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26075, Mar.
• Simon Jäger & Suresh Naidu & Benjamin Schoefer, 2025, "Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25105, Nov.
• Thomas Cornelissen & Christian Dustmann & Uta Schönberg, 2025, "Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25080, Oct.
• Rasmus Landersø & Kristian B. Karlson, 2025, "Intergenerational Educational Mobility among Immigrants and Descendants in Denmark: The Role of Sample Selectivity and Data Quality," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25115, Nov.
• Ahmet Gulek, 2026, "Occupational Heterogeneity of Child Penalty in the United States," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26036, Jan.
• Alan Benson & Louis-Pierre Lepage, 2025, "Learning to Discriminate on the Job," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25116, Nov.
• Patrice Laroche & Alex Bryson & Heather Joshi & David Wilkinson, 2026, "The Gender Wage Gap in Britain: A Meta-Analysis," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26086, Mar.
• Hans Grönqvist & Bart Golsteyn & Thomas Dohmen & Edvin Hertegård & Gerard Pfann, 2026, "How Parenting Styles Shape Children's Lifetime Outcomes," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26023, Jan.
• Pauline Carry, 2026, "The Effects of the Legal Minimum Working Time on Workers, Firms and the Labor Market," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26071, Mar.
• Arnaud Dupuy & Morgan Raux & Sara Signorelli, 2026, "Digitalization, Change in Skill Distance Between Occupations and Occupational Mobility," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26062, Mar.
• Michele Belot & Xiaoying Liu & Vaios Triantafyllou, 2026, "In Their Own Words: What Workers Like and Dislike about their Jobs," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26026, Jan.
• Ingvild Almås & Nina Drange & Costas Meghir & Henrik D. Zachrisson, 2026, "Early Childcare Attendance and Cognitive skills in Adolescence," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35109, Apr.
• Egshiglen Batbayar & Christoph Breunig & Peter Haan & Boryana Ilieva, 2026, "Quantile Selection in the Gender Pay Gap," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26014, Jan.
• Natalia Emanuel & Emma Harrington & Amanda Pallais, 2025, "The Power of Proximity to Coworkers," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25164, Dec.
• Sarah Cattan & Antonio Dalla-Zuanna & Jan Stuhler & Po Yin Wong, 2026, "Educational Mobility Across Multiple Generations in Indonesia," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12611.
• Benjamin W. Arold & Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu, 2025, "Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25113, Nov.
• Pereira, João & Ramos, Raul & Martins, Pedro S., 2026, "How Cyclical Is a Gap? Composition-Adjusted Evidence on the Gender Wage Gap," GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO), number 1746.
• Boeri, Tito & Crescioli, Tommaso & Garnero, Andrea & Luisetto, Lorenzo, 2026, "Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompete Agreements in France," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18564, Apr.
• Patrick Bayer & Kerwin Charles & Ellora Derenoncourt, 2025, "Racial Inequality in the Labor Market," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25106, Nov.
• Krzysztof Karbownik & Helena Svaleryd & Jonas Vlachos & Xuemeng Wang, 2026, "Classrooms as Workplaces: How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26050, Feb.
• Julie Berry Cullen & Gordon B. Dahl & Richard De Thorpe, 2025, "Job Mismatch and Early Career Success," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 2562, Sep.
• David Dorn & Florian Schoner & Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon & Ludger Woessmann, 2025, "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 25136, Dec.