Social sciences

EALE Labour Economics prize

Prize winner 2012

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The editors of Labour Economics are pleased to announce the year 2012 winner of the 6th "EALE Labour Economics Prize" for the best paper published in Labour Economics during the period 2010-2011:

The long-term labor market consequences of graduating from college in a bad economy 
Labour Economics, Volume 17, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 303-316 
Lisa B. Kahn

The paper has been selected by the editors as the 2012 winner of the biennial “EALE Labour Economics Prize” for the best paper published in 2010 and 2011. The panel thought that this was a distinctive paper that had significant novelty and was extremely professionally executed.

The prize committee comprises of the editors of the journal.

Editor-in-chief:
Ian Walker

Co-Editors: 
Katherine G. Abraham
Juan J. Dolado
Markus Frölich
Bas van der Klaauw
Kevin Lang
Susan Vroman
Etienne Wasmer

Previous prize winners

2010
Grégory Jolivet
A longitudinal analysis of search frictions and matching in the U.S. labor market
Labour Economics, volume 16, issue 2, April 2009, pages 121-134

2008
Scott E. Carrell
The national internal labor market encounters the local labor market: Effects on employee retention
Labour Economics, Volume 14, Issue 5, October 2007, Pages 774-787

2006
Kenneth Carling and Laura Larsson
Does early intervention help the unemployed youth?
Labour Economics, Volume 12, Issue 3, June 2005, Pages 301-319

2004
Ragui Assaad and Insan Tunali
Wage formation and recurrent unemployment
Labour Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2002, Pages 17-61

2002
Heather Antecol
An examination of cross-country differences in the gender gap in labor force participation rates
Labour Economics, Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2000, Pages 409-426