Volumes 5 and 6 of the Handbook of Labor Economics will systematically review the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that constitute frontier research in the field. The focus will be on the most important research advances that have taken place since the publication of the previous Handbook Volume 4 almost 15 years ago.

1. Crime and the Labor Market
Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Paolo Pinotti
2. Empirical Bayes Methods in Labor Economics
Christopher Walters
3. Families and the Labor Market
Gordon Dahl and Katrine V. Løken
4. Immigration
Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg
5. Instrumental Variables with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Magne Mogstad and Alexander Torgovitsky
6. Job Search, UI and ALMP
Thomas Le Barbanchon, Johannes Schmieder and Andrea Weber
7. Labor Force Transitions
Rui Castro, Fabian Lange and Markus Poschke
8. Short-term work policies
Pierre Cahuc
9. Minimum Wages
Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner
10. Trade and the Labor Market
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Margaret R. Jones and Bradley Setzler
11. Education, Skills and the Wage Structure
David Deming and Mikko Silliman
12. Compensating Differences
Alexandre Mas
13. Gender inequalities
Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan and Barbara Petrongolo
14. Labor Market Concentration
Ioana Marinescu and Jose Azar
15. Race in the Labor Market
Patrick Bayer, Kerwin Charles and Ellora Derenoncourt
16. Recent Advances in Personell Economics
Mitchell Hoffman, Kathryn Shaw and Christopher Stanton
17. Technology, Automation, and the Labor Market
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
18. Unions
Suresh Naidu, Benjamin Schoefer and Simon Jäger
19. Wage Setting Power: Theory and Evidence
Patrick Kline