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Use when articulating what is new in a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript for a general labor-economics audience — the marginal contribution, the labor lesson, and why a labor economist outside the subfield should care. Frames the pitch; it does not run analysis.

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# Contribution Framing (jole-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- A referee or reader cannot quickly say what the paper adds to labor economics
- The result is "a coefficient" with no articulated lesson
- The contribution is over-claimed (global statement from a local estimate) or under-claimed (real lesson buried)
- You need a one-paragraph "what's new for labor" statement for the intro and cover letter

## What "contribution" means at JOLE

JOLE is a **general-interest labor-economics** journal published for the **Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)**, so the contribution must register with labor economists **beyond your own subfield**, not only with specialists on your exact policy or dataset. A JOLE contribution typically takes one of these shapes:

1. **A new credible answer** to a first-order labor question (e.g., a returns-to-X, a labor-supply elasticity, an effect of an institution) where prior estimates were not well identified.
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