Labour Economics Letters / Aims and Scope
About LEL
Labour Economics Letters (formerly published as Revista de Economía Laboral), is the scientific journal of the Spanish Association of Labour Economics (Asociación Española de Economía del Trabajo, AEET). Founded by the initiative of a group of scholars –Luis Toharia, Joaquín Lorences, Carlos Peraita and Miguel Ángel Malo–, the journal specializes in the field of Labour Economics and has been published continuously since 2004.
The evaluation criteria of the journal will be double-blind evaluation. Peer review process will be governed by three principles: the reviewer should have no prior knowledge of the submission; the reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors; the reviewer belonging to the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted. Contents are in accordance with the publication standards established in the APA (American Psychological Association) manual.
Frequency: open volume 1 per year | New ISSN: Old ISSN:1698-451X Revista de Economía Laboral
Open access: This journal provides open and free access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps to a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors do not have to pay any Article Processing Charge or Open Access Publication Fee.
Indexed: Dialnet, Latindex , EBSCO, and RePEc.
Full papers are typically no less than 2,000 to 4,000 words. It is possible to publish appendices separately as supplemental materials. When submitting, editors strongly recommend the publication of data and programs that facilitate the replicability of the results.
Description of the review process: A complete review process will take place within 5 weeks. If the editor decides to send the paper to reviewers, they will be required to submit a report within two weeks with one of three possible outcomes: acceptance, minor revision, or rejection. In the case of a minor revision, authors will be given two weeks to make the necessary changes, after which the associate editors will determine if the paper is suitable for publication.
Language: English
Editorial Board
The editorial board is based on a select group of reputed scholars in this field, assessing both a gender and international balance among editorial board members covering all the JEL classification codes related to labour economics.
Editors-in-Chief
Emilio Congregado, University of Huelva, Spain
Raúl Ramos, University of Barcelona, Spain
Editorial Board
Associate Editors
José María Arranz, University of Alcalá, Spain
María Begoña Cueto, University of Oviedo, Spain
María de los Ángeles Davia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Concepción Román Díaz, University of Huelva, Spain
Herbert Schuetze, University of Victoria, Canada
International Advisory Board
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California, USA
Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, Spain
Alina Botezat, Gheorghe Zane Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romania
Lorenzo Cappellari, Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy
Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma, University of Viena, Austria
Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Frank Fossen, University of Nevada, USA
Ewa Galecka, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Lucía Gorjón, ISEAK Foundation & FEDEA, Spain
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana, University of Navarra, Spain
Jolanda Hessels, Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands
Juan Francisco Jimeno, Bank of Spain, Spain
Tomi Kyyrä, VATT Institute for Economic Research, Finland
Pedro S. Martins, Nova Lisboa, Portugal
Massimiliano Mascherini, Eurofound, Ireland
Simon C. Parker, IVEY School, Canada
Andre van Stel, Trinity Business School, Ireland
Founding and Former Editors
Carlos García Serrano, Universidad de Alcalá
Raquel Llorente, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Joaquín Lorences, Universidad de Oviedo
Miguel Ángel Malo, Universidad de Salamanca
Carlos Peraita, Universitat de València
Luis Toharia, Universidad de Alcalá
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