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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?

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

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these … children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings are robust to a wide range of sensitivity analyses. …

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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers

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

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and … 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 Labor Market: The Household Interaction Effect

Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …

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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 …-over effects from immigrant children to native Dutch children. Immigrant children themselves experience negative language spill …

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

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

estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that … children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous … Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father. …

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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 …

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