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Labour Market and Migration

Labour Market and Migration is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 5.8k research works in it since 1961. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores gender disparities in the labor market, focusing on topics such as women in the workplace, human capital investment, employment flexibility, regional diversity, work-life balance, discrimination, economic well-being, and social policy. The papers cover a wide range of issues related to gender and work, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities for achieving gender equality in the labor market.

  • Gender Disparities
  • Labor Market
  • Women in the Workplace
  • Human Capital
  • Employment Flexibility
  • Regional Diversity
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Discrimination
  • Economic Well-Being
  • Social Policy
Research works
5.8k
fractional, since 1961
In the world top 10%
561
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
88% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Labour Market and Migration

Which countries lead Labour Market and Migration research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (524 and 16 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 524 works
  2. 2 United States 16 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 11 works
  4. 4 Czechia 10 works
  5. 5 Germany 7 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 7 works
  7. 7 Russia 7 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 7 works
  9. 9 Romania 5 works
  10. 10 France 4 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.

Poland: 87.7%United States: 2.7%Ukraine: 1.8%Czechia: 1.6%6 others listed: 6.2%88%largest
Poland524 · 87.7%United States16 · 2.7%Ukraine11 · 1.8%Czechia10 · 1.6%6 others listed37 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Labour Market and Migration research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Warsaw publishes the most Labour Market and Migration research, followed by University of Łódź and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WarsawPoland 34 works
  2. 2 University of ŁódźPoland 33 works
  3. 3 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 32 works
  4. 4 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 24 works
  5. 5 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 23 works
  6. 6 Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland 19 works
  7. 7 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 15 works
  8. 8 University of WrocławPoland 13 works
  9. 9 University of SzczecinPoland 13 works
  10. 10 University of GdańskPoland 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Labour Market and Migration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Labour Market and Migration include Gary S. Becker, Adam Torbicki and Ewa Anita Jankowska.

  1. 1 Gary S. Becker United States 148k citations
  2. 2 Adam Torbicki Poland 134k citations
  3. 3 Ewa Anita Jankowska Poland 107k citations
  4. 4 Richard W. Blundell United Kingdom 91k 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 Labour Market and Migration?

The most cited paper in Labour Market and Migration is "Overeducation in the labor market: a meta-analysis" (Wim N. J. Groot, H. Maassen van den Brink, 2000), with 740 citations. Next come "Job security, employment and wages" (735) and "The Swedish Multi-generation Register" (548).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Overeducation in the labor market: a meta-analysis Wim N. J. Groot, H. Maassen van den Brink · Economics of Education Review Review Apr 2000 740
2 Job security, employment and wages Giuseppe Bertola · European Economic Review Jun 1990 735
3 The Swedish Multi-generation Register Anders Ekbom · Methods in molecular biology Book chapter 23 Sep 2010 548
4 Semi-Nonparametric IV Estimation of Shape-Invariant Engel Curves Richard W. Blundell, Xiaohong Chen, Dennis Kristensen · Econometrica Open access 19 Oct 2007 486
5 Discrimination in Labor Markets Edward P. Lazear Book chapterOpen access Oct 1991 419
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Labour Market and Migration research done?

The largest centres of Labour Market and Migration research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Łódź (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Łódź, Poznań and Krakow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 119 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 73 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 44 works
  4. 4 ŁódźPoland 43 works
  5. 5 LublinPoland 31 works
  6. 6 WrocławPoland 26 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 20 works
  8. 8 OlsztynPoland 16 works
  9. 9 GdańskPoland 16 works
  10. 10 SzczecinPoland 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ŁódźPL · 42.7 works107×
  2. PoznańPL · 44.1 works74×
  3. KrakowPL · 73.2 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Labour Market and Migration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Labour Market and Migration?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Warsaw, University of Łódź and Jagiellonian University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 8.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ŁódźAdam Mickiewicz Univ…Jagiellonian Univers…University of Warsaw
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

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
1University of WarsawPoland 64.96.8%123.3×34 -24.0%
2University of ŁódźPoland 64.49.8%216.0×33 -31.9%
3Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 62.38.5%67.2×24 -11.2%
4Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 61.29.3%146.0×32 -29.0%
5Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 50.515.1%70.9×9 -24.7%
6Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland 37.64.0%391.1×19 -12.0%
7Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 36.08.4%238.4×10 +14.6%
8University of WrocławPoland 35.05.9%114.5×13 -49.6%
9University of GdańskPoland 33.07.2%104.6×12 -12.4%
10John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 28.06.6%92.3×8 -20.0%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Labour Market and Migration, country by country

Is Labour Market and Migration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Labour Market and Migration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Labour Market and Migration0.0030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Labour Market and Migration 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%Labour Market and Migration9.3% 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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