jole-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript against the labor literature — staking the contribution against the closest papers under Chicago author-date citation norms, not writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not run analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (jole-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work section reads as a survey rather than a contribution stake - It is unclear which papers you build on and which you improve on - Citations are not in Chicago author-date style or are ordered wrong in-text - A referee could say "this has been done" and you have no crisp rebuttal ## Positioning for a labor audience JOLE referees are labor economists who know the field's frontier. Positioning is not a literature dump; it is a **precise stake**: which two or three papers are closest, and exactly what you add (better identification, new or linked data, a distinguished mechanism, a new population or institution). Because the journal is **general-interest within labor**, also locate the paper for labor economists in adjacent subfields — a wage-structure result should be legible to someone who studies migration or family economics. Citation mechanics are JOLE-specific and load-bearing here: - **Chicago (University of Chicago Press) author-date** style. - In-text citations are ordered **chronologically, then alphabetically within the same year** (a, b disambiguation for same author / same year) — **n
- When to trigger
- Positioning for a labor audience
- How to stake the contribution
- Checklist
- Micro-rewrite: survey register vs. stake register
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jole-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript against the labor literature — staking the contribution against the closest papers under Chicago author-date citation norms, not writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not run analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.