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Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred …-use data to consider the distribution within the household of market work and housework, and discuss the work specialization …

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How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children

Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...

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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ours, Jan C. van; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the...

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Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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