The ''Journal of Labor Economics'' is an

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published quarterly by the

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on international research examining issues affecting the

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as well as social and private

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. It covers various aspects of

labor economics Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as pa ...

, including

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of labor services,

personnel economics Personnel economics has been defined as "the application of economic and mathematical approaches and econometric and statistical methods to traditional questions in human resources management". It is an area of applied micro labor economics, bu ...

, distribution of income, unions and collective bargaining, and

labor markets Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the Market (economics), markets for wage labour. Labour (human activity), Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding ...

and

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. It is an official publication of the Society of Labor Economists. The Journal was first published in January 1983. Since then, 28 volumes and 120 issues have been published (as of August 19, 2010). In a 2009

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conducted by an economist at the

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, The Journal of Labor Economics was ranked 8th out of 30 economic journals in terms of number of articles and citations. (The analysis included publications of these 30 journals between 2001 and 2008.) According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 3.607. The Journal's

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is Paul Oyer. Its co-editors include Oriana Bandiera.

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Society of Labor Economists
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