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Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...

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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers' behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....

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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of …

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Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labour Market: The Household Interaction Effect

Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … only at strictly lower wages to men. The model developed predicts a gap even controlling for education, occupation and … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labour market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …

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Cannabis Use and Its Effects on Health, Education and Labor Market Success

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate …

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Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics

Ridder, G; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important determinant of the completion and dropout rates. However, this...

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