jole-workflow
GitHubJOLE投稿工作流路由器，指导从选题到反驳的稿件准备阶段。根据用户当前瓶颈或症状（如因果识别、写作风格、数据政策等），路由至对应的jole-*子技能，不替代专业工具。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-workflow -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jole-workflow",
"description": "Use when deciding which jole-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills."
}
JOLE Workflow Router (jole-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill. It tells you which jole- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of Labor Economics.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JOLE — a general-interest, peer-reviewed quarterly in labor economics, published by the University of Chicago Press for the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). JOLE takes both theoretical and applied/empirical labor work (wages and earnings, employment, human capital and education, labor supply and demand, family economics, discrimination, unions, migration, institutions and policy). Operational tells that you are at JOLE and not a sibling journal: Editor-in-Chief Peter Kuhn, a non-refundable submission fee ($100 SOLE members / $175 non-members since July 1, 2018; decisions withheld until paid), single-blind review via Editorial Manager (so the manuscript is NOT anonymized — a title page names all co-authors), a 100-word abstract, a ~20,000-word soft cap counting each full-page table/figure as 500 words, Chicago author-date references ordered in-text chronologically then alphabetically, and deposit to the JOLE Dataverse Repository under the AER data policy. Before upload, live-check the portal path, fee prompts, editor conflicts, and data-policy wording from the official source map.
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?"
- The user hands over a draft and needs the current bottleneck diagnosed
- Work is ping-ponging between empirics, framing, writing, and response letters
- A JOLE decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Question feels narrow / "so what for labor?" unclear | jole-topic-selection |
| Contribution relative to the labor literature is fuzzy or undersold | jole-literature-positioning |
| Empirics rest on OLS + controls; causal claim is undefended | jole-identification-strategy |
| Estimation, sample construction, or robustness needs labor norms | jole-data-analysis |
| The "what's new for labor economics" pitch is not framed | jole-contribution-framing |
| Exhibits are dense and blow the 500-words-per-page budget | jole-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the idea; 100-word abstract / intro do not land | jole-writing-style |
| Accepted-stage data/code deposit to the JOLE Dataverse | jole-replication-and-data-policy |
| Want to understand single-blind review, fee, and referee expectations | jole-review-process |
| Ready to submit via Editorial Manager; need a preflight checklist | jole-submission |
| Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy | jole-rebuttal |
Default order
jole-topic-selection— lock a labor question that matters broadlyjole-literature-positioning— stake the contribution against the labor frontierjole-identification-strategy— make the causal design crediblejole-data-analysis— execute estimation and robustness to labor normsjole-contribution-framing— articulate what is new for labor economicsjole-tables-figures— finalize exhibits within the word economyjole-writing-style— polish prose, the 100-word abstract, author-date cites (last)jole-replication-and-data-policy— assemble the JOLE Dataverse depositjole-review-process— understand the single-blind process and pre-empt refereesjole-submission— Editorial Manager preflight (fee, title page, non-anonymized)jole-rebuttal— after the R&R
jole-writing-styleis a late-stage polish. Do not rewrite the intro before identification is settled — the argument will change.
Routing ledger
Tick each gate in order; route to the first one left open. Keep the ledger with the draft so co-authors see the same bottleneck.
JOLE routing ledger
[ ] labor question of broad interest locked ....... jole-topic-selection
[ ] frontier staked vs. 2-3 closest papers ........ jole-literature-positioning
[ ] causal design defensible to a labor referee ... jole-identification-strategy
[ ] estimation + robustness meet labor norms ...... jole-data-analysis
[ ] "what is new for labor" pitch framed .......... jole-contribution-framing
[ ] exhibits fit the 500-words-per-page budget .... jole-tables-figures
[ ] 100-word abstract + intro land ................ jole-writing-style
[ ] JOLE Dataverse deposit assembled .............. jole-replication-and-data-policy
[ ] fee / single-blind expectations set ........... jole-review-process
[ ] Editorial Manager preflight complete .......... jole-submission
[ ] R&R response strategy (only after revision) ... jole-rebuttal
Decision shortcuts
- "I have data but no labor angle" →
jole-topic-selection - "I don't know who I'm building on in labor" →
jole-literature-positioning - "My DID is TWFE on staggered minimum-wage timing" →
jole-identification-strategy - "My AKM firm effects may have limited-mobility bias" →
jole-data-analysis - "My result has no clear lesson for labor" →
jole-contribution-framing - "My main table has 12 columns and eats my word count" →
jole-tables-figures - "My abstract is 220 words" →
jole-writing-style - "Editor wants data and code on the Dataverse" →
jole-replication-and-data-policy - "Do I pay the fee, and is it double-blind?" →
jole-review-process - "Submitting tomorrow on Editorial Manager" →
jole-submission - "Got the referee reports" →
jole-rebuttal
Anti-patterns
- Do not anonymize the manuscript — JOLE is single-blind; that is
jole-submission's job to enforce - Do not let
jole-tables-figurespolish exhibits while identification is still shaky - Do not skip
jole-literature-positioningand jump to identification — referees judge the labor contribution first - Do not let
jole-rebuttaldraft a response letter before the revised manuscript exists - Do not forget the submission fee blocks the decision — budget for it (see
jole-review-process)
Version History
- 1839142 Current 2026-07-05 13:44
