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Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Labor market dynamics and wage inequality is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of labor market dynamics, including the impact of technological change on job susceptibility, the role of education and skills in wage inequality, the gender pay gap, job polarization, and the influence of personality traits on employment outcomes. It also delves into the effects of minimum wage policies and the implications of unemployment on the economy.

  • Labor Market
  • Technological Change
  • Wage Inequality
  • Education
  • Unemployment
  • Skill-Biased
  • Gender Pay Gap
  • Job Polarization
  • Personality Traits
  • Minimum Wage
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Which countries lead Labor market dynamics and wage inequality research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (953 and 333 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 953 works
  2. 2 China 333 works
  3. 3 Germany 277 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 263 works
  5. 5 India 219 works
  6. 6 Italy 188 works
  7. 7 Spain 131 works
  8. 8 France 109 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 101 works
  10. 10 Japan 94 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 35.7%China: 12.5%Germany: 10.4%United Kingdom: 9.9%6 others listed: 31.6%36%largest
United States953 · 35.7%China333 · 12.5%Germany277 · 10.4%United Kingdom263 · 9.9%6 others listed842 · 31.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Labor market dynamics and wage inequality research?

By volume in 2022-now, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics publishes the most Labor market dynamics and wage inequality research, followed by National Bureau of Economic Research and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IZA - Institute of Labor EconomicsGermany 49 works
  2. 2 National Bureau of Economic ResearchUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 25 works
  5. 5 Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und BerufsforschungGermany 24 works
  6. 6 University of ChicagoUnited States 24 works
  7. 7 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 21 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 21 works
  9. 9 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 19 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Labor market dynamics and wage inequality include Donald B. Rubin, Nicholas G. Martin and Christopher D. Manning.

  1. 1 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  2. 2 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  3. 3 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
  4. 4 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  5. 5 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  6. 6 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  7. 7 Jay Bryan Barney United States 152k citations
  8. 8 David R. Jacobs United States 152k citations
  9. 9 M. Hashem Pesaran United States 150k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality?

The most cited paper in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality is "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital" (Jenell S. Coleman, 2000), with 21,799 citations. Next come "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?" (8,640) and "Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research" (7,495).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital Jenell S. Coleman · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 2000 21,799
2 The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Oct 2016 8,640
3 Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research Vincent Tinto · Review of Educational Research Mar 1975 7,495
4 The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration David Autor, Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov 2003 6,165
5 Interaction terms in logit and probit models Chunrong Ai, Edward C. Norton · Economics Letters 19 May 2003 5,849
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Where is Labor market dynamics and wage inequality research done?

The largest centres of Labor market dynamics and wage inequality research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Washington D.C. (United States), Beijing (China) and Bonn (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nuremberg, Bonn and Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 96 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 91 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 68 works
  4. 4 BonnGermany 61 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 55 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 51 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited States 50 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 46 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 46 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NurembergDE · 25.7 works53×
  2. BonnDE · 61.2 works20×
  3. Washington D.C.US · 91.1 works5.8×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Labor market dynamics and wage inequality?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Economics and Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Chicago score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Massachusetts Instit…London School of Eco…University of ChicagoUniversity of Oxford
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 76.721.5%24.1×21 +13.7%
2Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 74.236.5%5.4×14 +6.5%
3University of ChicagoUnited States 72.717.6%7.7×24 +25.5%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 61.89.9%4.0×21 +35.8%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.712.5%2.7×16 +29.9%
6Stockholm UniversitySweden 58.115.9%10.0×12 +49.8%
7Bocconi UniversityItaly 57.023.0%31.4×10 +109.4%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 55.010.6%3.3×18 +9.0%
9University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 54.527.8%3.4×12 +6.1%
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 52.69.9%6.1×19 +4.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality, country by country

Is Labor market dynamics and wage inequality research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Labor market dynamics and wage inequality as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Labor market dynamics and wage inequality0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Labor market dynamics and wage inequality over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Labor market dynamics and wage inequality10.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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