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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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Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession

Cerveny, Jakub; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of...

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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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The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country

Ours, Jan C. van; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and because of immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrant workers have a weak labour market position, which is mainly related to their educational...

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From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

Ours, Jan C. van; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences across ethnic groups. Conditional on having a job there is hardly any difference in wages and other job characteristics...

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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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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands

Ours, Jan C. van; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Since the mid-1960’s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...

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Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment

Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native Dutch.

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Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?

Sweetman, Arthur; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In addition to basic demographics, relevant economic theories and institutional...

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Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach

Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects at different parts of the test score distribution of...

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